Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. L. James

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.

Donna Brazile

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Donald E. Westlake

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

Donald Pleasence

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

Corazon Aquino

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

Colleen Atwood

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today,

Colin Wilson

I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Dalai Lama

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself.

Dalai Lama

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

Dolph Lundgren

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.

Dolph Lundgren

You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Dolores Huerta

Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards of being an activist is that you get to meet all these wonderful people. And there are many unsung heroes. There are so many out there that are good people that are working hard.

Devdutt Pattanaik

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

Dave Grohl

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

Dave Grohl

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

Daryl Hall

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

Darrell Waltrip

If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong.

Clark Gregg

I guess what we know about the Avengers is there's a reason why all of the heroes that we've been meeting, from Thor to Captain America - everybody - they need to work together.

Dan Rosensweig

Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

Dan Simmons

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

Dan Rather

It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority. I think there's a hero on every street corner in New Orleans, and I think the reporting has shown that. I think the balance has been there.

Danielle Dax

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Dan Lipinski

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

Colson Whitehead

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Dawn French

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

David Simon

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

David Paul

Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.

David Paul

There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes

Corey Taylor

On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

Confucius

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

Dalton Trumbo

The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.