Heroick Quotes

#1. Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Samuel Johnson

#2. Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

Mary Astell

#3. Actions without a dream serve you no purpose, Dreams without action merely pass the time, however, a Dream set into motion ... .the future has no boundaries.

Mark W. Boyer

#4. In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#5. Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it.

Jamaica Kincaid

#6. Look at the body as a royal chariot to which the ignorant cling, while the wise let go.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!

Lisa A. Mininni

#8. Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.
Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

Dick Pound

#10. When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.

Mark Mulder

#11. Image-bearing means becoming fully human, not becoming divine. It means reflecting as a limited being the perfections of a limitless God.

Jen Wilkin

#12. Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

Ma Jun

#13. Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?

Isabel Yosito

#14. I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina,

Michaela DePrince

#15. Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.

Leo Ornstein

#16. But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.

William Shakespeare

#17. My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

Vikram Seth