Quotes about hero
hero world detectives
How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed. Orhan Pamuk
hero thinking ideas
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
hero fighting destiny
The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief. Emile M. Cioran
hero choices want
We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing. Ellen Goodman
hero blessing thoughtful
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive. Ellen Glasgow
hero expectations coward
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. Ellis Peters
hero should knows
Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
hero dumb battle
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
hero finance beads
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. Henrik Ibsen
hero men dust
Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. 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 Rollins
hero missing old-lady
I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple. Helen Oyeyemi
hero heroism clown
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. Heinrich Heine
hero men laughing
I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.
hero tree saint
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint. Henry Ward Beecher
hero needs littles
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
hero men order
There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. Henry Fielding
hero mean ideas
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.
hero men genius
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality. Johann Kaspar Lavater
hero men fur
To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
hero men stamps
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
hero men said
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
hero men valet
To a valet no man is a hero.
hero reason butlers
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
hero men be-a-man
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
hero order needs
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
hero veteran
Every # Veteran is a hero. Joe Walsh
hero dean my-hero
Dean Martin is one of my heroes. Joe Mantegna
hero live-your-life like-you
Live your life like you're the hero in your movie. Joe Rogan
hero artist order
I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life. Jim Woodring
hero facts rebel
A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments. Jim Morrison
hero technology creating
With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone. Erik Qualman
heroism quiet idealism
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal? Erich Segal
hero heart made
Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart. Eric Ludy