On Heroes Quotes

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

This thing of being a hero about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

Who are your heroes?" asked Jo."Grandfather and Napoleon.

Trying to shatter peace, even if it’s not one you agree with, is the work of the mad and the wicked.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum.

To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an easy collapse into the madness of an increasingly chaotic world and represent another way.

The hero, it might be said, is called into being when perception of a need an the recognition of responsibility toward it are backed up by the will to act.

There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

see, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don’t have a hero. You can’t kill a hero. That’s why I never let him get older.

That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.

To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but just that one is willing to stand.

And you, You can be meanAnd I, I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers, And that is a factYes we're lovers, And that is that

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

All aboard for one last trip.

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

We could use some good luck. That doesn’t mean we’ll get it.

We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace.

Me, personally. I do not know a soul who perished that day of 9/11. But it did then, does now, and I imagine it always will bring out the Patriot in me.

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. “Oh, no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!”Nothing happ

The rivalry ends here, " Percy said. "I love you, Wise Girl.

Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason gr

Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.'No, stupid, ' Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

The plan had three phases: dangerous, really dangerous and insanely dangerous.

Like your zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid, ' Leo said. 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug."Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

I have no heroes except flowers and children.