Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

Akshay Kumar

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

Chris Colfer

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

Chris Abani

We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?

China Mieville

...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

Darren Shan

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

David Guetta

Inside a soul, there's a hero to discover

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Kevin Yates

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

Bill Hybels

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

David Fincher

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

Alice Waters

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

Donald Trump

Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.

Andy Stanley

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

Billy Graham

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Heath Ledger

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

Henry Ford

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Chris Hadfield

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.