Quotes about hero
hero hawks directors
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'. Stephen Fry
hero character play
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical. Rutger Hauer
hero people want
Trump says things others so desperately want to say to people that work, to people wherever they encounter them. Trump says it. Trump carries a banner of this stuff for people. He says and acts in ways that they do in private, but can't get away with in public. But Trump is. It makes him a hero to these people. Rush Limbaugh
hero needs
Heroes don't need to talk about what they did. W. P. Kinsella
hero flood true-hero
Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero. W. P. Kinsella
hero aces pilots
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. W. H. Auden
hero demise mortals
No hero is mortal till he dies. W. H. Auden
hero law suffering
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is. W. H. Auden
hero desire psychological
Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero. Velupillai Prabhakaran
hero men common
If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history. Velupillai Prabhakaran
hero heart winning
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition. Van Jones
hero thinking curiosity
If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking. Ursula K. Le Guin
hero done outsiders
The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away. Twyla Tharp
hero might tests
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. Wilfrid Sheed
hero heart humble
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all. Wilferd Peterson
hero giving waiting
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person Wilferd Peterson
hero men progress
The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature. Wilferd Peterson
hero idols my-hero
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. Warren Zevon
hero home mean
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him. Warren Zevon
hero reality villain
The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals. Waylon Jennings
hero talking people
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. W. Somerset Maugham
hero ambition thinking
I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero. Young Jeezy
hero land america
Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers. Willie Nelson
hero thinking hands
I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits. Yaya Han
hero kids planning
Where is [Ariel] Sharon who, planning to be one of the big heroes of Israel, became one of the killers, criminals, killing our small kids in Sabra and Chatila. Where is Alexander Haig? Yasser Arafat