A Quotes
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“A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.”
“A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.”
“A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.”
“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
Source: Silverthorn
“A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.”
“A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.”
“A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.”
“A hero is the product of his own decisions.”
Source: «Muggles, Monsters and Magicians»: A Literary Analysis of the «Harry Potter» Series
“A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.”
“A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.”
“A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.”
“A hero's talent lies latent within the self. It sleeps within him as seeds of possibilities. When discovered and nurtured, the seeds grow and flower. This flowering of his talent is a hero's true vocation.”
Source: Invincible Arjuna
“A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.”
“A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.”
“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”
Source: The West Wing: Seasons 3 & 4 : the Shooting Scripts
“A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.”
Source: Endymion
“A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom,” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.”
Source: July Lightning
“A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.”
“A heroic nature is very Greek.”
“A heroic woman cannot walk away without checking how she can be of help to someone, because she yearns to help those in need.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A heroic woman does not help in pursuit of publicity. She lends a hand, because she understands her role in society.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A heroic woman does not help in the pursuit of publicity. She lends a hand because she understands her role in society.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A heroic woman is never intimidated by the hardships of that time. She is motivated by what stands to be gained in the end.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“A heroine makes progress against an enemy who would manipulate her thoughts when she begins to probe his and see weakness.”
“A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.”
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“A hibernating snail doe not necessarily mean it is dead”
“A hibernating snail is not necessarily dead”
“A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.”
“A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
A mute Delight regards Time's countless works:
To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room,
To house God's joy in self our souls were born.”
Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series
“A hidden gem beneath it all.”
“A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.”
“A hidden wooden cottage is much safer than a solid fortress standing in an obvious place on the hill!”
“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
Source: 1984
“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
“A high and attainable goal and being focused on it, is the best cure for laziness, excuses, offence, and hatred”
“A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181
“A high church for the true mediocre.”
“A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“A high concentration of power in one place is rarely a good idea in the long run.”
Source: Who Made You Slave : The Ugly Truth Of Government And Elites Tyranny: The Ugly Truth Of Government And Elites Tyranny
“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
Source: The Wisdom of Life
“A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“A high functioning palate allows you to live without sugar and salt”
“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”
Source: The works
“A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!”
Source: The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...
“A high income doesn’t create financial success — disciplined decisions do.”
Source: Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
“A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite”
“A high-mature digital organization is shifting from “pushing” stuff to the digital channel into “pulling” resources up for problem-solving.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as