On Heroes Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun

Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and he's just the most amazing boy. He's so much like Dad sometimes, it's a bit scary.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.

Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

My point, " Jason said, "is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.

One murder makes a villain millions a hero.

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.

Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.

Sooner or later, they’ll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insects.

Like watches over like, as the saying goes.

To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.

In other circumstances, Ivan might have offered him a job. Sadly, with a few notable meta exceptions, dead men didn’t code very well.

Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded them in the Underworld.

When a man losses faith he betrays a hero

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor

He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn’t eat too much of it at once.”I nodded slowly. “Right, ” I said. “That’s…sweet, I think.

Let's Not Just Be Heroes! Let's Be Heroes Who Lead!

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero

We were supposed to be heroes.”“There’s no such thing as heroes.”Conversation between ‘Alis K’ and ‘Borge’The Informer by Steen Langstrup

We are here because the world needs heroes.

Life would have been easier if he'd never taught her to believe in heroes by handing her those cookies that day, but it wouldn't have been nearly as magnificent either.

Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of traits to emulate in your own life.

Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

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

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.

We were thinkers not talkers.We were problems not solutions.We were heroes of the dark, villains with a spark.