Quotes about hero
hero fire greek
One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical substances in the world. Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes—duct tape Rick Riordan
hero bliss tales
Tales of heroes end in bliss. Tanith Lee
hero
You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching. Tamora Pierce
hero princess survival
Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival. Tad Williams
hero people ordinary
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. Sylvia Mathews Burwell
hero earth enjoyed
The earth is enjoyed by heroes Swami Vivekananda
hero greatness men
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.
hero coward made
Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.
hero writing emotional
When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read it in the script and I'd always be struck by what I'd just done and what we were doing, and that this was my childhood hero and I was writing his death. Ronald D. Moore
hero character giving
Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of gray—and shades of gray are also a part of life. Stephen King
hero animal long
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions. Stan Sakai
hero mean thinking
I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day. Stan Lee
hero sleep race
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race. Stanley Kunitz
hero numbers firefighter
I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course. Stacy Keach
hero looks want
We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to. Stacie Orrico
hero judging world
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began. Soren Kierkegaard
hero discovery conquer-the-world
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces Stefan Zweig
hero years accomplishment
When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.
hero coward immortality
The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. Thomas Guthrie
hero play people
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks. Tim Burton
hero islands would-be
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero. Thomas Frank
hero obsessed predicaments
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine. Woody Allen
hero comedian way
You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.
hero eye prize
Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes. William Shenstone
hero problem
Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future. William Shatner
hero novel deserve
Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel. William Nicholson
hero believe evil
The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody. William Friedkin
hero character men
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic. Samuel Smiles
hero roger and-love
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love. Willard Scott
hero want
Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero? Whoopi Goldberg
hero reality problem
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. Warren G. Bennis
hero army brave
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. Ronald Reagan
hero america entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America.