#heroic

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#balance #being #both #confusing #difficult

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#art #baseness #beauty #best #best part

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ↗

— George Orwell

#comes #heroic #human #human beings #pinch

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#godlike #heroic #lend #me #owe

I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#damaged #disorder #find #flawed #heroic

If she would just let herself go I would be there to catch her if she fell but she wasn't ready to take that step yet." Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions ↗

— Elize Amornette

#books-romance #elize-amornette #elize-amornette-author #love-story #private-emotions-trilogy

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#film #genres #heroic #only #out

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #approach #computer #computer science #exotic

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#events #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #force #heroic