There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.
Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
Virtue alone is sweet society,
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all.
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.
There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.
For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.
Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.
Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.
Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.
The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
As well as tasting fantastic, blackberries are good for you. Anthocyanin isn't just a pigment, it's a flavonoid, a heroic antioxidant! The stuff of superfoods!
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.
I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
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