Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

Robert Jordan

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

Robert Jordan

If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

Walter Mosley

A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

Wael Ghonim

No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.

Wael Ghonim

There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

Wael Ghonim

Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.

Wade Davis

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

W. Somerset Maugham

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

Young Jeezy

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

Willie Nelson

Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.

Yaya Han

I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

Yasser Arafat

Where is [Ariel] Sharon who, planning to be one of the big heroes of Israel, became one of the killers, criminals, killing our small kids in Sabra and Chatila. Where is Alexander Haig?

Robert Webb

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

Richard Jackson

I particularly like your American ones, where the hero is invariably amorous, alcoholic and practically indestructible.

Siegfried Sassoon

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Santana Moss

I'm not going to go out there trying to be a super hero or anything like that. You never know when, but it's going to be stepped up. Everyone's going to rock and roll.

I hope they look like heroes and not zeroes and have the lake open on time for this season.

Neal Shusterman

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Nate Parker

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.

Morgan Freeman

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

Milan Kundera

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

Miep Gies

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

Miep Gies

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

Mickey Spillane

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Margaret Weis

Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)

Joseph Addison

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Canseco

I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role.

Jorge Amado

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Jorge Luis Borges

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Joni Mitchell

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.