Quotes about hero
hero men parent
Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all. Pythagoras
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hero
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.
hero genius gone
Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince. Shania Twain
hero law justice
The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes. Len Wein
hero wine men
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. Lawrence Durrell
hero thinking
I think Michael Moore is a hero. Larry David
hero winning intelligent
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. Vaclav Havel
hero meaning-of-life absence
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
hero men looks
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
hero truth-is given
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
hero men tragedy
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
hero succeed chance
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
hero writing intelligent
I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too! Suzanne Brockmann
hero mean writing
With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them. Stephen Malkmus
hero writing eye
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’. Stephen King
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.
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