Quotes about hero
heroes history honoring partisan process turn
Most important to me is not having the process of honoring heroes turn into a partisan process. History is too important.
heroes
You all are heroes of mine, and I ain't got many heroes. Kinky Friedman
heroic movies reason whereas
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. Oscar Isaac
heroes traits
We have a need for heroes as a species, you know. That is one of the distinguishing traits of humans. We have a need to have an idealized sense of who we are at our best. David Blankenhorn
hero grandmother way
We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef. Anne Heche
hero men cells
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? Albert Claude
hero suffering alive
The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action. Albert Camus
heroism difficult
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
hero passion live-in-the-present
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
hero protect protect-yourself
Don’t be a hero,” I told him sternly. “Protect yourself. Amanda Hocking
hero mama fool
My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.
hero men persons
There is no such man as a one-person hero. Daniel Inouye
hero negative ifs
If negative meant positive we'd be heroes. Daniel Johns
hero names achievement
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark. Daniel J. Boorstin
hero media
The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.
hero men names
The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
hero discovery next
Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.
hero media people
The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
hero men names
Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor answered, "It is the name of a legendary hero on Zadaa. A woman." Really?" Aja said. "What did she do that was so heroic?" She killed her enemies and ate them. D. J. MacHale
hero my-hero
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes. Clarence Darrow
hero gun ideas
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero. Danny Strong
hero writing school
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to. Danny McBride
hero past risk
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. Daniel Dennett
hero dying
In death a hero, as in life a friend! Alexander Pope
hero mean self
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous. Alex Tabarrok
hero villain persons
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person. Alex Kapranos
hero differences making-a-difference
One person can and does make a difference. Albert Schweitzer
hero passion gun
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed. Debi Mazar
hero people giving
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
hero needs
We each need to become our own hero. Debbie Ford
hero expectations long
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high. E. L. James
hero political inspired
Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics. Donna Brazile
hero brands hard
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. Donald E. Westlake