Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

Thomas Carlyle

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

Thomas Carlyle

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Thomas Carlyle

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Thomas Carlyle

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.

Thomas Carlyle

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Thomas Carlyle

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Thomas Carlyle

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Tony Kushner

What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

Tommy Lasorda

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

Steven Biko

Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background

Steven Gerrard

Kenny Dalglish is a hero of mine and is the best player to ever wear a red shirt.

Steven Erikson

Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly." "I want to be a soldier. A hero." "You'll grow out of it.

Steve Berry

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

Stephan James

Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective. Through my research, I obviously learned a lot, much of which made me sad, upset, disappointed and even angry, regarding what Jesse had to go through. Not only was he a black man in America during an age of high racial tension and segregation, but he was also living in the middle of the Great Depression - it was very difficult times for him and his family.

Stephan James

Sacrifice. I'd never been in a position where I was number one on the call sheet, and everything was in my lap. I worked 16 hour days, and I was just not the lead of any film, it was a film about Jesse Owens, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century. It was a whole new type of responsibility. It was a big weight, and I wanted to do him justice, especially in reviving him after 80 years.

Stendhal

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

Stanley Clarke

Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

Stanislav Grof

Walt Disney was my great hero.

Spike Milligan

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

Spike Milligan

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Silvia Cartwright

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Sessue Hayakawa

My one ambition is to play a hero.

Steven Pressfield

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

Steven Pressfield

Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

Susan L. Taylor

The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

Steven Weinberg

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

Robert Burns

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

Richard Hammond

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

Richard Attenborough

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

Richard Attenborough

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

T. S. Eliot

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.