When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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.
My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.
Truth is a pathless land.
The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.
I did a different size of photograph at the FIAT gallery - this time the images are 30" by 40," so they're maybe like four times the size of images I've shown before in a gallery. I just saw them now, and once they're in the mat and the frame, they're just beautiful. It's funny because even though it's closer to life-sized, to me anyway, they become not necessarily anymore about the person, but they almost become a little more heroic.
Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.