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Heroic Quotes (page 6)

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference. Ellen Goodman
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. Howard Zinn
When the heavens are obscured to us, and nothing noble or heroic appears, but we are oppressed by imperfection and shortcoming on all hands, we are apt to suck our thumbs and decry our fates. As if nothing were to be done in cloudy weather, or, if heaven were not accessible by the upper road, men would not find out a lower... There are two ways to victory, - to strive bravely, or to yield. How much pain the last will save we have not yet learned. Henry David Thoreau
Steven Brust quote: "True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided."
True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided. Steven Brust
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been. Annie Dillard
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. John Knowles
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless J. R. R. Tolkien
George Carlin quote: "I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows..."
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. George Carlin
I want to do something splendid. Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I think I shall write books. Louisa May Alcott
Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me Elizabeth Gilbert
Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody."You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting. Lloyd Alexander
Joss Whedon quote: "Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that..."
Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way. Joss Whedon
Samuel Butler quote: "Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of..."
Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. Samuel Butler
Victor Hugo quote: "What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing..."
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. Victor Hugo
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of... Thomas Wolfe

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