Heroic Quotes - Page 29

• Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Winning, Awards, Mvp

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• No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved.

  Yvonne Rainer

  Stars, Believe, Moving

  Yvonne Rainer (1999). “A Woman Who--: Essays, Interviews, Scripts”, p.16, JHU Press

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• "Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God."

  R. A. Torrey

  Son, Sacrifice, Noble

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• Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fire, Secret

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Rocks, Band

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• There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore.

  Jared Padalecki

  Love, Hero, Book

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• With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . . . Al-Hotary, the son of Palestine, whose noble soul ascended to . . . in order to rest in Allah's Kingdom, together with the Prophets, the men of virtue, and the martyrs. The heroic martyrdom operation . . . who turned his body into bombs . . . the model of manhood and sacrifice for the sake of Allah and the homeland.

  Yasser Arafat

  Believe, Heart, Son

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

  Anthony Minghella

  War, Hero, Ugly

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People aren't universally heroic.

  Alexei Sayle

  People

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• In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

  Valmiki

  World, Praying, Thee

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• I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

  Tom Paulin

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Religious, Art, Age

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Work, Firsts

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• We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

  Frank Bruno

  Congratulations, Eagles, Letters

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• All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

  John Green

  People, Literature, American Literature

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

  Kit Williamson

  Hero, Character, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long ago. We've lost true history. But if we are willing to tolerate the contradictions, and if we suffer through events rather than ticking them off, we may at least get closer to understanding what happened than if we grip the handrail of a carefully polished and reassuringly heroic narrative.

  Nicholson Baker

  Long Ago, Confusion, Understanding

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• 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

  Keys, Ideas, Doubt

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, p.30, Knopf

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• If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.

  Peter Marshall

  Believe, Play, Kitchen

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• Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

  Robert Barron

  Athletic, Way, Christ

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• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

  James Anthony Froude

  Real, Different, Tests

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14

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• With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

  Joseph Campbell

  Taken, Journey, Firsts

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