Top 1200 Heroic Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

There are certainly people who have committed horrific, evil acts in the history of humanity. I don't think Aaron Burr's one of them.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home.

Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.

When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the third acts and all this stuff.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

The main events of '205 Live' are always among the discussion as far as top acts of the week in the world.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

Sports remain a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons. It was through athletics that many of us first came to understand that fear can be tamed; that on a team the whole is more than the sum of its parts; and that the ability to be heroic lies, to a surprising degree, within.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.