(49 quotes found)
“America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.”
Warren G. Harding
“One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Tenors are noble, pure and heroic and get the soprano, if she has not tragically expired before the final curtain. But baritones are born villains in opera. Always the heavy and never the hero-that's me.”
Leonard Warren
“When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.”
Agnes De Mille
“To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”
George Orwell
“None meet life honestly and few heroically.”
Clarence Darrow
“If you're going to promote the movie, why wouldn't you promote your family member's heroic actions? I don't understand that.”
Carole O'Hare
“Because men who do any significant kind of caregiving are often seen by family and friends as heroic, they are more likely to be offered social support and tangible assistance by them,”
Carol Levine
“I have often been gratefully aware of the heroic efforts of my opponent not to laugh at me.”
Bernard Darwin
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