Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their… — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Shooting and playing defense are two entirely different things. If the ball goes in, you're a hero, if it doesn't, well, you're… — John Havlicek Copy Share Image
50 Cent is a hero to me because he's overcome so many things. He's been shot nine times and lived. I had… — Bill Bellamy Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us... — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods). — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to do genre films. I love horrors and thrillers. But I didn't think I'd be doing a… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!"… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was. Or so I tell… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic… — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image