Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

Alex Tabarrok

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

Debi Mazar

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

Dean Norris

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

Christopher Reeve

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Christopher Meloni

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

Anne Bronte

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

Anne Bronte

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

Andrew Bernstein

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Craig Finn

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

Alec Baldwin

I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'

Thomas de Quincey

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Robert J. Shiller

My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk openly in the economics profession about irrationality in decision-making, I received a lot of criticism. Ginny would support my views and remind me that a whole other profession - psychology - studies people's irrational sides.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

Sam Levenson

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.

Sam Levenson

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

Sally Kellerman

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

Stanley Borgia

This is the coward who murdered a 13 year old girl.

Mohandas Gandhi

Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Mike Ditka

Those who live in the past are cowards and losers" -- Mike Ditka

Swami Vivekananda

The coward is an object to be pitied.

Lucretia Mott

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Larry Brown

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

George Herbert

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

Trevor McDonald

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.