Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adolf Hitler

For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

Adam Brody

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

Anita Baker

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Allan Ray

I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.

Ann Coulter

The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.

Adam Phillips

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Adam Levine

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

Adam Baldwin

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Adam Baldwin

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

Abraham Lincoln

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Alex North

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Alfred P. Sloan

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Alfred Rosenberg

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

Alfred Marshall

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Aldous Huxley

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Aldous Huxley

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

Albert Einstein

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

Abhishek Bachchan

In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

Abigail Adams

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

Abigail Adams

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Aaron Paul

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

We have learned who our true role models and heroes are in our society.

Johann Koss

I was surrounded by many heroes today. Some would say they are athletes. I would say they are humanitarians, too.

Vandana Shiva

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.

Kara Walker

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Jane Austen

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

Albert Schweitzer

There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

Spike Milligan

I'm a hero with coward's legs. I'm a hero from the waist up.

Steve Forbert

My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.

I am just a simple Chinese. I don't think I'm a hero. The real heroes are the ones who sacrificed their lives.

Cameron Crowe

The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.

Carroll O'Connor

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.