Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now. — Jane McGonigal
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon. — Leonid Shamkovich
The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph — Nick Vujicic
The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. — Malcolm Gladwell
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle. — Grace Hartigan
Great victory requires great risk. -Hera — Rick Riordan
These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings. — Danielle Trussoni
So this is it. Match point for eternity. — Boris Becker
Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains. — Mike Caro
Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished. — Jack Lovelock
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Short Epic Quotes
Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings. — Wiz Khalifa
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson
A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for. — Howard G. Hendricks
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson
How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything. — Howard G. Hendricks
You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are. — Howard G. Hendricks
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. — Leonardo da Vinci
I am associated with techno epics. — Trevor Horn
It's a sin to bore people with the Bible. — Howard G. Hendricks
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. — Howard G. Hendricks
Epic Image Quotes
Do Epic Shit!
Epic Stories Quotes
God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it. — Steven Curtis Chapman
Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being. — Brian Swimme
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going. — Michael Shermer
I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place. — Baz Luhrmann
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe. — Ajay Naidu
Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script. — Robin Sharma
I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important. — Colum McCann
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end. — A. E. Douglass
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. — Anatole Broyard
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. — Thomas Menino
Epic Poems Quotes
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. — Seamus Heaney
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. — G. K. Chesterton
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. — Leo Tolstoy
Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all. — William Morris
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. — Laurie Anderson
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics. — H. L. Mencken
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day. — Sophocles
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet. — Daniel Handler
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. — Lascelles Abercrombie
Epic Poetry Quotes
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. — Victor Hugo
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. — John Drinkwater
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. — Salvatore Quasimodo
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. — Lascelles Abercrombie
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic. — E. O. Wilson
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth. — Victor Hugo
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen. — Milan Kundera
Epic Battle Quotes
More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself. — Kevin Smith
There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning. — David Benioff
The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists. — Ann Coulter
Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world from colonialism. Of course the West never forgave Russia for fighting the epic battles against its expansionism and colonialism. — Andre Vltchek
Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it. — Dane Cook
I’m sorry ma’am,” I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I’d spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts? — Richelle Mead
Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don't need another. — Richelle Mead
She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle. — Kristin Hannah
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage. — Alain LeRoy Locke
Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming. — Vishen Lakhiani
I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies. — Hiroshi Yamauchi
Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. — Jerry Seinfeld
As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times — Sourav Ganguly
I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. — Hunter S. Thompson
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. — Jerry Saltz
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death. — Pier Paolo Pasolini
I would go to war with Dhoni by my side. — Gary Kirsten
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette. — Joe Queenan
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something. — Enrico Fermi
When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final. — Sunil Gavaskar
The coolest man in world cricket MS Dhoni delivers when it most matters! — Michael Vaughan
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. — C. S. Lewis
A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
When you think about it, some people don't like certain things, but when it comes to music, no matter who you are, where you're from, what kind of personality you've got...everyone loves music of some sort; that's what's so epic about it. — Niall Horan
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. — Ernest Hemingway
Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word. — Howard G. Hendricks
If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life. — Tommy Lasorda
You cannot impart what you do not possess. — Howard G. Hendricks
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope. — Cassandra Clare
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex. — Hunter S. Thompson
I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers! — Gwyneth Paltrow
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential. — Howard G. Hendricks
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. — Hunter S. Thompson
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself. — Georgette Heyer
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. — Reed Hastings
Once a choker, always a choker. It never ever changes. That was one of the epic meltdowns. He didn`t know where he was. I thought he was going - I thought he was going to die. Good going, Chris [Christie]. — Donald Trump
Good people drink good beer. — Hunter S. Thompson
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