Heroic Quotes - Page 11

• I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.

  Nick Cave

  Simple, Views, America

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• States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Hero, People

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

  Diablo Cody

  Opportunity, Play, Perspective

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• I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

  Jane Campion

  Believe, Thinking, Treasure

  Jane Campion (1993). “The piano”, Miramax

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Leadership, Hope, Encouragement

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

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• I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

  Kevin Costner

  Hero, Men, Thinking

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• People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.

  Eric Davis

  Cancer, People, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Spring, People, Democracy

  "Hamas ditches Assad, backs Syrian revolt". www.reuters.com. February 24, 2012.

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• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  Warren G. Harding

  Healing, America, Presidential

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 14 May 1920.

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• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Meaning Of Life, Absence

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

  Vaclav Havel

  Life, Struggle, Hero

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 08, 1975.

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• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Love, Life, Family

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

  Vaclav Havel

  Faith, Hero, Events

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Fate, Honor

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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• One man with courage is a majority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Success, Courage

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• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Important, Society

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  John Keats

  Nature, Fire, Heroism

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.37

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• Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Feelings

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• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

  Vaclav Havel

  Military, Hero, Creativity

  "Critic's Notebook; The Writers Who Shook a Government" by Michiko Kakutani, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 1990.

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• Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Race

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Giving

  "Vaclav Havel Dead: The Quotes Of The Man Who 'Lived In Truth'" by Paul Vale, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. December 18, 2011.

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• Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

  Vaclav Havel

  Suicide, Hero, Suicidal

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  Vaclav Havel

  Leadership, Powerful, Hero

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Men, Tragedy

  "Letters to Olga". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1988.

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