Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Charles Horton Cooley

If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

Charles Horton Cooley

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

Bipasha Basu

You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.

Bipasha Basu

Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.

Bill Ayers

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

Bernard Marcus

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

Bob Lilly

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

Bill Vaughan

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Betty Dodson

The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

Bob Taft

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

Bob Feller

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Bob Feller

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Bob Feller

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

Bob Ainsworth

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.

Cheech Marin

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

Charlie Sheen

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

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.

Bertrand Piccard

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

Bertolt Brecht

Only bad generals need heroes.

Bertrand Russell

Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions.

Carlos Gonzalez

Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.

Carlos Ghosn

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

Carlos Fuentes

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.

Agnes de Mille

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

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.

Carl Jung

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

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

There's no question that he was a hero of the first order.