Quotes About Heroics

#1. We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

Mary Pipher

#2. history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining stories, the plights, justifications and heroics of the losers are gone with time. Ours is such a history. We are stronger, yet rarely

H.K. Savage

#3. Low comedy, empty heroics and pointless death

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.

Dean Koontz

#5. When we'd started working together, I'd assumed it would be a question of putting up with Pritkin; then suddenly the stupid hair was making me smile, and the sporadic heroics were making my heart jump and the constant bitching had me wanting to kiss him quiet.

Karen Chance

#6. America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

#7. Time for some thrillin' heroics.

Joss Whedon

#8. I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Ellen Goodman

#9. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jeff Greenfield

#10. I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

James Joyce

#11. needed my collegiate heroics to mean something more than just the Olympian like state of my liver.

Bodhi Alvarez

#12. Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Gail Godwin

#13. True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Steven Brust

#14. Between the tragedies and heroics there are the everyday banalities of war.

Ada Maria Soto

#15. We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

Stephen Graham Jones

#16. Easy," he muttered under his breath. "Save the foolish heroics for the 'all-else-fails' part of the program.

Thomas M. Reid

#17. I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

Richard Engel

#18. What interests me more than dramatic heroics are the domestic things: How do people do laundry and find food when the world is about to end?

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#19. True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Martin Freeman

#20. Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

Peter Weiss

#21. You politicians make me sick with your heroics!
How to die with valor. How to die with dignity.

When you should be learning: how to live like a human being.

Nathan Toulane

#22. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. Here's my philosophy. Adopt it, and you'll make it out alive. Every man for himself. You watch your own ass. Your con goes orange? You fall back to defensive position. No heroics. And no stupidity. Got it?

Eve Silver

#24. Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#25. No Heroics. If you need a hero to get things done, you have a problem. Heroic effort should be viewed as a failure of planning.

Jeff Sutherland

#26. What to paint was a problem for the war artist ... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever ... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

A. Y. Jackson

#27. Song is the heroics of speech.

Thomas Carlyle

#28. I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

Karen Russell

#29. Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat. DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE

Matthieu Ricard

#30. Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary.

Brene Brown

#31. Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

Brandon Sanderson

#32. Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other
or kill ourselves.

Orhan Pamuk