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We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.
A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.
When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man.
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
In the world of poker, it's not heroic to try to function on a couple hours of sleep.
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
I never had the opportunity to play a Latino character that is seen in a heroic, smart way.
Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.
We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
Villains are as important as the hero. Without the right villain, the hero isn't heroic enough.
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.
Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.
Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
Catwoman isn't a 'joiner.' She's a solo operator. She isn't naturally heroic; she's fairly selfish.
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.