Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
People aren't universally heroic.
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.
Morning brings back the heroic ages.
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.
I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh, and that's pretty much it.
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.
The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
A heroic figure. . . not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.
Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.