Quotes about hero
hero eye men
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hero sleep loss
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.
hero angel gossip
Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
hero oratory orators
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
hero heroism
The hero is suffered to be himself.
hero justice soul
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
hero soul youth
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
hero mean men
After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished. Lin Yutang
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Im pretty sure that everybodys hero is Gannicus Liam McIntyre
hero hypocrisy abuse
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy. Terry Southern
hero people notes
Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes. Terry Pratchett
hero thinking people
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
hero purpose saws
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.
hero taken opportunity
If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.
hero drunk insane
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
hero caves narrative
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.
hero self principles
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle. Terrence Howard
hero glowing differences
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. Teresa de Lauretis
hero heart together
Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together. Terence McKenna
hero mean self
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic. Teju Cole
hero insecure actors
I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now. Randeep Hooda
hero men perfect
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
hero world dupes
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
hero party uniforms
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
hero men vices
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
hero history reason
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
hero men brave
A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
hero men keys
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity
hero common reconcile
The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
hero champion trying
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
hero strikes sail
O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
hero eye past
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.