Pain Heroism Quotes

#1. Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

Anne Roiphe

#2. War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Napoleon Hill

#3. Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.

L.B. Taylor Jr.

#4. Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.

Marty Rubin

#6. You live up - or down - to your expectations.

Lou Holtz

#7. Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.

Rajneesh

#8. If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Ben Kingsley

#9. A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it's moorings or orientation ... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

Ben Okri

#10. Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

David Gemmell