Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Rollins

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

Henry Rollins

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

Henry Rollins

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Henry Rollins

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

Henry A. Kissinger

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

Henry David Thoreau

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Patricia Hill Collins

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

Patricia Briggs

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

Patricia Briggs

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

Paddy Chayefsky

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

Plato

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Philip Zimbardo

Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, "What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me!

Philip Zimbardo

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Philip Zimbardo

I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

Philip Zimbardo

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Philip Zimbardo

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Philip Zimbardo

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Philip Zimbardo

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Phil Keoghan

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

Lauryn Hill

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Lance Morrow

Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Johnny Depp

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

Johnny Depp

I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

John Shelton Reed

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

John Rhys-Davies

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

James Scott

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

James Russell Lowell

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

James Russell Lowell

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

James Purefoy

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

Laura Dern

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

Laura Dern

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

Larry Hagman

All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago