Heroic Measures Quotes

#1. As your demeanor has been nonaggressive and you carry no visible weapons, we are not authorized to employ heroic measures to ensure your cooperation," the first MetaCop says. "You stay cool and we'll stay cool," the second MetaCop says.

Neal Stephenson

#2. It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

Eric Kierans

#4. All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Rita Dove

#5. The future is an infinite succession of presents

Howard Zinn

#6. Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. First month honey ... Next month pie ... Third month ... Get out here and work, you damn bitch, same as I.

Karen Cecil Smith

#8. You don't mind? Life is in the minding.

Tom Stoppard

#9. There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

John Dewey

#10. To be a good actor ... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Sarah Bernhardt

#11. Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Peter Senge

#12. He who would pray, must obey.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#13. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

Paul Ryan

#14. I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.

Jay London

#15. My wife said never to judge her until I walked a mile in her shoes. That's how I found out I like wearing high heels.

Jerry Snider

#16. This was the house that Paula had taken me and two other graduate students to years earlier. She had told us to go out on the deck, look at the view of the Atlantic Ocean, and say to ourselves, This is what playwriting can buy. Now,

Sarah Ruhl