Maya Angelou Quotes, Hero Quotes, Men Quotes

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

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It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Hero Quotes , Men Quotes

Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-sa What I said: “Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-savvy bond analyst. Drew Chapman is a debut novelist to watch.

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The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Hero Quotes

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hero Quotes , Mind Quotes

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

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Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Hero Quotes

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

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Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Hero Quotes , Should Quotes

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , God Quotes , Hero Quotes

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

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