Quotes about hero
hero drunk insane
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. Terry Pratchett
hero caves narrative
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.
hero self principles
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle. Terrence Howard
hero glowing differences
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. Teresa de Lauretis
hero heart together
Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together. Terence McKenna
hero mean self
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic. Teju Cole
hero insecure actors
I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now. Randeep Hooda
hero men perfect
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
hero world dupes
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
hero party uniforms
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
hero men vices
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
hero history reason
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
hero men brave
A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
hero men keys
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity
hero common reconcile
The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
hero champion trying
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
hero strikes sail
O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
hero eye past
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
hero genius gone
Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince. Shania Twain
hero law justice
The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes. Len Wein
hero wine men
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. Lawrence Durrell
hero thinking
I think Michael Moore is a hero. Larry David
hero men generosity
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
hero reason coming-out
My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero, Sheryl Swoopes
hero writing thinking
I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark. Neil Peart
hero drinking glasses
I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes. Natalie Portman
hero thinking artist
I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second. Taylor Swift
hero parent acting
Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it. Josh McDowell
hero mia fans
Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers. Justin Bartha
hero two yeats
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. Leonard Cohen
hero
Heroes don't get anything but dead. Laurell K. Hamilton
hero economist
Economists are generally negligent of their heroes. John Kenneth Galbraith