Quotes about hero
hero extraordinary-person ordinary-extraordinary
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Gerard Way
hero wish sides
I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side. Hayden Panettiere
hero lasts watches
I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please."
hero grateful character
When people do love our show [Heroes] and they put on the costumes, they know everything about our characters. And it is overwhelming at the same time. But you know, it's something that we're grateful and that's the reason why our show's continued to succeed.
hero people benefits
Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes. Havelock Ellis
hero men being-a-hero
Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. Hayao Miyazaki
hero thinking people
To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs. Grete Waitz
hero stories life-story
Be the hero of your own life story. Gerard Butler
hero differences oratory
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. Horace
hero political atheism
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Herbert Spencer
hero writing men
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another thing.... Yet what were history if he did not exaggerate it? How comes it that history never has to wait for facts, but for a man to write it? The ages may go on forgetting the facts never so long, he can remember two for every one forgotten. The musty records of history, like the catacombs, contain the perishable remains, but only in the breast of genius are embalmed the souls of heroes. Henry David Thoreau
hero men enemy
A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are commonly treated as enemies by it.
hero men ordinary
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
hero demand england
The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
hero love-is maidens
A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.
hero joy suffering
Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.
hero character scripture
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
hero style would-be
Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.
hero simple people
Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. Jessica Hagedorn
hero boring villain
Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes. Jeremy Brett
hero hands use
It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left. Jeremy Collier
hero race mischievous
Heroes are a mischievous race.
hero home moon
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent") Jhumpa Lahiri
hero world
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. Graham Greene
hero welcome shows
Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me. Gil Scott-Heron
hero dubious three
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. Gregory David Roberts
hero play missing
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. Ian Rush
hero past looks
To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present. Howard Zinn
hero president persons
Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person. Howard Baker
hero night agamemnon
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
hero men illumination
even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth ... Hannah Arendt
hero believe demigods
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
hero jazz kenny
Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes Harvey Pekar