Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry Washington

Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our lead characters can only look like somebody else. Heroes look like all of us. We see ourselves in each others' stories. We see who we are. We see who we want to be. Sometimes we see who we don't want to be. And through that we have a greater understanding of ourselves and acceptance of each other.

Marshall McLuhan

Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

Malcolm McDowell

The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

Mahatma Gandhi

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Gail Carson Levine

I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

Mackenzie Astin

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To a valet no man is a hero.

Brianna Schooley

I've seen the video and still can't believe it. I will always remember the cheering and how great it felt when I scored with 1:28 left to play. That moment will always be very special to me.

Tad Perry

I've worked carefully with our internal people to make sure we follow the open meetings laws. I believe we did in this case.

Tiger Woods

I've won four and, I tell you what, it's hard to believe really, just because it's the Masters. This is something every kid dreams of playing in, and, hopefully, one day even winning it. To have the opportunity to win four already is the thrill of the lifetime.

Mitch Lasky

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

Luke Donald

I've still got to believe that I can (win). If I play really great golf, then I've got a chance to win around here.

Amanda Crew

I've never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there's some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be.

Turner Stevenson

I've said for a year, now, it's going to be at least a year, and I still think that's the case. No Stanley Cup handed out this year. Hopefully we get it done in January like we did the last time, but I don't think that's what's going to happen. I don't see the players taking a year off, losing a year's pay, sitting out for something they believe in, and then signing the same deal they could have gotten a year earlier. That's not going to happen.

Walter Willett

It would be a huge misinterpretation to believe that it doesn't matter what we eat to prevent heart disease and cancer.

Matti Vanhanen

It would be more correct to say that the EU is in difficulties. I am not taking issue with whether or not there are problems in the leadership ... I do not necessarily believe in an authoritarian style of leadership where democracy is concerned

Anais Nin

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

Anais Nin

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Susan Sontag

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Roger Rosenblatt

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Roger Rosenblatt

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

Russ Roberts

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Rush Limbaugh

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Thomas Merton

As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.