H Quotes
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“Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.”
“Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man’s life.”
Source: Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
“Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.”
Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files
“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.”
“Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.”
“Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.”
“Heroism is all about discovering our purpose of life, exercising the Power of ONE and affirming the Power of Intent which we are all blessed with. The Seriousness of intent and Honesty of Purpose can help each individual awaken the hero within.”
“Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.”
Source: Loving God
“Heroism is endurance for one moment more.”
“Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.”
“Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.”
“Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.”
“Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.”
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”
“Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.”
“Heroism is the antidote to evil.”
“Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.”
“Heroism lies in the hearts of humanity.”
“Heroism must not be about the recognition of the savior but the elevation of the saved.”
“Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.”
“Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.”
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“Heroism was not courage. Not madness. Maybe not even choice. Maybe it was only this—a man with nothing left but love, baring his teeth as the world burned for crowns.”
Source: Gates of Thiros
“Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.”
“Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.”
Source: L.P.
“Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.”
“Heroji ljubavi, oni pravi, ne pamte se dugo, nisu bitni za istoriju, ali u sebi poseduju nešto vrednije, jače od bilo kog vida herojstva. Njihovi postupci se beleže samo u srcima, opstaju zakopani do poslednjeg otkucaja, što je dovoljno dugo da bi ostali zapamćeni onima zbog kojih su to herojstvo činili. Pravim herojima je to dovoljno.”
Source: Zavet heroja
“Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Heros they're not always tough or brave, and the last look on their face is scared or uncertain like rethinking the choice they just made. But they don't change their mind, they stick to it. Then boom they're gone”
“Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.”
“Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.”
“Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.”
Source: A Song for Summer
“Herr Bohnsack comienza con un chiste, que contó en un almuerzo allá por 1980 ante un grupo de colegas en un restaurante reservado a los altos cuadros de la Stasi. Se reclina en su silla y sonríe, como el que se regocija en su secretito.
—Estados Unidos, la Unión Soviética y la RDA quieren sacar a flote el Titanic —dice arqueando las cejas—. Estados Unidos quiere las joyas que se supone que deben estar en la caja fuerte. Los soviéticos quieren la tecnología más puntera, y la RDA… —se bebe lo que le queda de Korn, a modo de pausa dramática— la RDA quiere a la banda que tocaba mientras se hundía.”
Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall
“Herr kakkerlakk i fotsid frakk og med for store sko, gikk på basar og vant et par kalosjer nummer to. Herr kakkerlakk sa tusen takk! og pakket gaven sammen, nå skal jeg hjem og vise dem til barna ogg madammen!”
“Herr Professor', vroeg een mevrouw aan de grote theoloog Karl Barth, 'zullen wij onze gestorven dierbaren een terugzien?' 'Jazeker mevrouw,' gaf Herr Professor ten antwoord. 'Trouwens, de anderen ook.'
'Mogen de engelen u naar het paradijs geleiden,' zingt de kerk de gestorvenen toe, maar zij laat er onmiddellijk op volgen dat zij daar in het gezelschap van de 'eertijds arme Lazarus' zullen verkeren. Geen hemel zonder verloste bedelaars. Moslims die bereid zijn zichzelf op te blazen, wordt twaalf maagden in de hemelse gewesten in het vooruitzicht gesteld. Het zou heilzaam zijn wanneer hun geestelijke leidslieden erbij zouden zeggen dat ze er ook hun schlachtoffers zullen aantreffen.”
Source: De dag zal komen, Janus
“Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.”
“Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.”
“Hers it was, rather, to run and hurry and ponder on long solitary walks, climbing gates, stepping through the mud, and through the blur, the dream, the ecstasy of loneliness, to see the plover's wheel and surprise the rabbits, and come in the heart of the woods or on wide lonely moors upon little ceremonies which had no audience, private rites, pure beauty offered by beetles and lillies of the valley and dead leaves and still pools, without any care whatever what human beings thought of them, which filled her mind with rapture and wonder and held her there till she must touch the gate post to recollect herself.”
“Hers to be his to be hers ad
infinitum, smoke smudging
the
bell of her throat. To what had
been or might've been her
thoughts migrated, cloth wall
he
pressed his hand against, he of
the indelicate embrace.”
Source: Nod House
“Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.”
Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye behind a cracked windshield. A life made up of promises of what could be: the possibilities contained in a stack of college applications, the thrill of sleeping under a strange roof, the future that lay in Sam's smile. It was a life I didn't want to leave behind. It was a life I didn't want to forget I wasn't done with it yet. There was so much more to say.”
“Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death.”
Source: Lord of Scoundrels
“Hers was not an easy sleep. Through her dreams there came and went the young girls of her mother’s stories: girls who had left their little houses against the rules and custom. Some of them were bitten by snakes and died at once; some of them lived long enough to bring shame and sorrow to their families, and then died; and there was the one who cut herself and sucked her own blood and liked the taste so much, she ate more and more of herself, becoming nothing but a head—a Cannibal Head—which devoured her parents and her brothers and sisters and then rolled horribly over the earth with an insatiable need always to eat human flesh, more and more and more.”
Source: The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends
“Hers was simply not a pew shaped spine.”
Source: The golden apples of the sun
“Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime.”