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The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

The threat of disintegration and collapse in this family and to a certain extent the heroic struggle of the central character in overcoming the problems that beset her is real. It's real, you know? It's not the stuff of losers, it's the stuff of ordinary families, ordinary suburban families. Not the working class poor, not the silly rich, it's the stuff of every single family I know. There is a family member, there is a beloved friend who is beset by the life and death struggle to do with drug addiction and getting free of it.

Salisbury is an immensely talented team, both well-coached and extremely well-disciplined. We knew we would need a heroic effort to topple them, and although we didn't, we did receive a great effort from every one of the players.

reach the hard and heroic decisions that will lead to peace.

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

The most worrying thing of all is if we are now seeing a breakdown in communication, trust and co-operation between the British forces -- who have done a heroic job there under the most dreadful of circumstances -- and aspects at least of the Iraqi domestic security forces,

Spend a few minutes every morning and evening in the Silence of your own shrine or home; spend them with the highest of all the Powers that you know of. Be in His elevating and Inspiring company; worship Him mentally; offer unto Him all the work you do; you will come out of the silence nobler and more heroic than when you went in.

Despite the heroic efforts on the local level by our sheriffs and our chiefs and our deputies and our officers, this is not a challenge that we have, by and large, been succeeding at defeating. Now it sounds like it's different here in Kirksville, and that's great, but we have been losing ground in most places.

That's heroic stuff. We knew he'd be (our top player as a freshman) and he's worked hard to develop. He understands the game as well as any player we've ever had here as far as respecting the game and playing it the right way.

They're real people. It's a look into the future that's not going to be a perfect utopian future. Joss was able to portray people with flaws, imperfect people, tyrannical people, people who can be both heroic and self-centered.

According to the National Homebuilders Association, that is a heroic assumption. We're really being optimistic with that figure.

Its engineers have not necessarily proven that they can ship software on time. Maybe Microsoft needs less heroic engineering and more of a business focus.

It's a story about American combat in a foreign country, ... and it's a heroic story. Right now, not too many foreign territories are interested in that kind of story, and it has to do well overseas.

It was an act of love and kindness and compassion. It's an incredibly heroic story, especially given the times.

It's absurd to think a band is something heroic. There is nothing heroic about being a band or making music. Heroic is doing a job that you hate every day in an office to support your family. It's carrying on in the face of that.

It's two people dead and, fortunately, we had a very heroic police officer, Richard Burt, who probably saved an awful lot of lives,

It's an incredible, heroic engineering story. They beat Mother Nature. They beat the insurgents.

That means that the patient either ended up with permanent harm or the error caused the patient to receive some sort of heroic intervention necessary to save life, such as CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) or surgery.

It teaches that war is cruel and wasteful but sometimes necessary. That a blundering victory is more to be valued than a heroic defeat. That might and right sometimes come to the same end. All these things happened on June 6, 1944.

The restructuring is not heroic by any stretch of the imagination.

In my district, there is a significant population of Armenian survivors and their families that showed heroic courage and a will to survive.

If not for the heroic action of the guards and the driver the huge explosion during rush hour could have caused many fatalities,

Instead of the classic, heroic story that we all so much want to see, we see a story about a man who unfortunately can't get together to do what he wants to do.

Citizens of South Dakota should be proud of their courageous legislators for making history by being the first state to create a law that bans all surgical abortions without exception. American Life League salutes these men and women for their heroic actions that will certainly make a lasting impact for the pro-life cause.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

I depict the Unionist community in a fair light. I depict them the way I see them. Maybe they want it more romantic. I don't find anything heroic in attacking 17-year-olds and pensioners.

I applaud the heroic efforts of Iraqi negotiators and appreciate their work to resolve remaining issues through continued negotiation and dialogue,

I commend Sgt. Bennett for his heroic service to our state and to our country,

I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.

for the great gift of these heroic witnesses.

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.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

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

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, / The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, / Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; / Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by-and-by.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world

The Ghost Rider's not particularly heroic in this story; he has his own agenda and won't let anything get in his way.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

The lay person doesn't have that training so their response to a life-threatening situation isn't always the same or as heroic as you would like it to be.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of transcendence through a great, prevailing, superior sort of love (especially in Ada, the most self-congratulatory of novels.)

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

A heroic nature is very Greek.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

The course was more plodding than heroic. I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy

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

Since first this subject for heroic song / Pleased me long choosing, and beginning late.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes

I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories.

Some men make gain a fountain whence proceedsA stream of liberal and heroic deeds.

No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. (January 20, 1981)

reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle.

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

Truth is a pathless land.

The man that is not moved with what he reads,That takes not fire at their heroic deeds,Unworthy of the blessings of the brave,Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.