Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hiddleston

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

Todd Tiahrt

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

Siobhan Fahey

I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

Simon Winchester

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

Socrates

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Mercy Otis Warren

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

Michelle Shocked

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

Michael Scott

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

Michael Scott

A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.

Michael Medved

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Man, he deserves a hero cookie. (Selena)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra

Norman Finkelstein

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

Nina Simone

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Neil Finn

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

Neil Gaiman

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

John Piper

All heroes are shadows of Christ

Rafael Nadal

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

Sheryl Crow

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I want you to know that I fought you fairly. Equal to equal. I could have used my powers against you, but I didn’t. (Stryker) Should I warm to oven and bake you a batch of hero-cookies? (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)

Terence Fisher

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

Nora Roberts

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

Nikolai Gogol

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

Nikos Kazantzakis

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Mircea Eliade

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Miranda Lambert

I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.

Mignon McLaughlin

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

Maximilien Robespierre

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime

Maxwell Caulfield

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

Maya Angelou

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.