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Heroic Quotes (page 5)

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War. Kurt Vonnegut
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the..."
Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day. Barbara Kingsolver
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet. Gustave Flaubert
George S. Patton quote: "An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team...."
An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit George S. Patton
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded. Henry James
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition. Jean Cocteau
What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out. Victor Hugo
In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one world-being, he suffers in his own person the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things, which means that he commits sacrilege and suffers. Friedrich Nietzsche
Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself. Robert Hughes
Dean Koontz quote: "In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than..."
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. Dean Koontz
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on. Virginia Woolf
Robert Frost quote: "Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness,..."
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.... Robert Frost
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious... James Branch Cabell
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! Nikos Kazantzakis
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of..."
I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. Charlotte Bronte

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