Top hero Quotes Collection
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No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.Collection: Hero
Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.Collection: Hero
You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.Collection: Hero
In this life, you have to be your own hero.Collection: Hero
Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.Collection: Hero
If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.Collection: Hero
A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.Collection: Hero
I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?Collection: Hero
Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground.Collection: Hero
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.Collection: Hero
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.Collection: Hero
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.Collection: Hero
Even the darkest of villans-can have a hero's heart.Collection: Hero
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?Collection: Hero
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.Collection: Hero
Live as a villain, die as a heroCollection: Hero
Adversity creates heroes.Collection: Hero
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.Collection: Hero
Every hero is the villain of his own story.Collection: Hero
Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.Collection: Hero
Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.Collection: Hero
Long ago I left heroics to the heroesCollection: Hero
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.Collection: Hero
Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.Collection: Hero
I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please."Collection: Hero
The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.Collection: Hero
There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.Collection: Hero
The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.Collection: Hero
She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.Collection: Hero
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.Collection: Hero
Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroesCollection: Hero
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.Collection: Hero
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.Collection: Hero
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.Collection: Hero
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.Collection: Hero
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.Collection: Hero
I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.Collection: Hero
For some heroes, nothing is impossibleCollection: Hero
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.Collection: Hero
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.Collection: Hero
I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.Collection: Hero
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.Collection: Hero
Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.Collection: Hero
But in the hero ne'er forget the man.Collection: Hero
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.Collection: Hero
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.Collection: Hero
Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.Collection: Hero
It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.Collection: Hero
There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.Collection: Hero
Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.Collection: Hero