Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Thomas

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I like to say I'm not a hero.

Norman Mailer

For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.

Norman Mailer

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Orhan Pamuk

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Emile M. Cioran

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

Ellen Goodman

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.

Ellen Glasgow

...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

It wasn't about being a hero or nothing like that. It was just the love of an animal, and I wasn't going to leave them at all. I own two horses of my own with my dad, and we can't find them---we're still kind of shook up about that.

It's more than mascot status. It's hero worship.

Nelson Mandela

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

Nelson Mandela

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

Nev Schulman

Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero

Noam Chomsky

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Noam Chomsky

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Noam Chomsky

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Noam Chomsky

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Noam Chomsky

The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

Mike Myers

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

Mike Pence

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

Joe Namath

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

Joe Dante

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

Jodi Picoult

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

Jodi Picoult

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

John Gresham Machen

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

Cassandra Clare

Though Will was saying earlier,” Tessa added, “that heroes all come to bad ends, and he could not imagine why anyone would want to be one, anyway.” “Ah.” Jem’s hand squeezed hers briefly, and then let it go. “Well, Will is looking at it from the hero’s viewpoint, isn’t he? But as for the rest of us, it’s an easy answer.” “Is it?” “Of course.” His voice was almost a whisper now. “Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes. If Will …

Carmen Electra

I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'

Christopher Hitchens

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

Moby

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.

Moby

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

Moby

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.