Quotes about hero
hero men years
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. Maya Angelou
hero men long
We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.
hero thinking african-american
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
hero hard-times things-in-life
I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life. Matthias Schoenaerts
hero government hands
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. Is force made only to protect crime Maximilien Robespierre
hero kids thinking
I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular. Maxwell Caulfield
hero thinking people
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
hero praise humans
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. Max Beerbohm
hero people care
Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas. Matthew Rhys
hero years months
You know who it is? It's me in 10 years. So I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and says, 'So, are you a hero?' And I was like, 'not even close. No, no, no.' She said, 'Why?' I said, 'Because my hero's me at 35.' So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero's always 10 years away. I'm never gonna be my hero. I'm not gonna attain that. I know I'm not, and that's just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing. Matthew McConaughey
hero thinking worry
I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine. Marilynne Robinson
hero mean numbers
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. Patricia Hill Collins
hero coyotes forget
Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes. Patricia Briggs
hero mean writing
I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
hero men want
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero. Paddy Chayefsky
hero leisure stories
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. Plato
hero mean kids
Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, "What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me! Philip Zimbardo
hero heroic psychological
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
hero mean sacrifice
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.
hero evil lines
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
hero knowing evil
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
hero groups conformity
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
hero power way
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
hero needs stories
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. Phil Keoghan
hero believe names
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. Lauryn Hill
hero ukraine eggs
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. Lance Morrow
hero want let-down
They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down. Johnny Depp
hero people choices
I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.
hero believe poor
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. John Shelton Reed
hero want
I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. John Rhys-Davies
hero evil people
What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil. John Podhoretz
hero information needs
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. Nick Cave
hero long suave
Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them. Nancy Farmer