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

David Guterson

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

David D. Burns

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Bruce Wilkinson

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

C. J. Cherryh

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Catherynne M. Valente

I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.

Charles William Eliot

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

Charles Lee

Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can.

Charles Kuralt

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Ai Weiwei

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas.... In truth, they are heroes of our time.

Billy Gardell

You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.

Edward Gibbon

Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.

Edmond Rostand

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

Ed Belfour

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

David Remnick

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

David Riesman

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.

Benedict Cumberbatch

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.

Antony Sher

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

Derek Jeter

The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

Dick Costolo

Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

Edward Snowden

I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.