Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Nicholas Winton

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

Eugene Debs

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Anne Fadiman

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Nelson Mandela

reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle.

John Walsh

This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people.

Tom Anderson

The fact that people can see and admire it, that's why they think it is a fantastic resource.

Thomas Reed

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

Shay Mitchell

I didn't realize how many actresses have tons of extensions. Their hair is still pretty, but it blew my mind to find that out. I admire the girls who switch it up a lot like Rihanna. But I also love Gisele Bundchen because she found a style that works and never changes it.

Tami Hoag

I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.

Brian Eno

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Carolina Herrera

You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.

Tao Okamoto

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

Ezra Klein

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.

Ellen McLaughlin

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Robert Falcon Scott

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

Roger B. Taney

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

Lytton Strachey

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.