An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“You want to be a superhero still, Grace? Well, every hero has a nemesis. And I'm yours.” — Bree Despain Copy Share Image
What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Batman puts rich people in handcuffs, he puts poor people in the hospital, but we're supposed to consider him the hero. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away. — Charisma Carpenter Copy Share Image
If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if… — Darrell Waltrip Copy Share Image
It should be easily admitted that every hero is only as great as the villain that he prevails over. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Over my dead body when I'm governor of Virginia are we ever going to take down the statue of Robert E. Lee… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Great men were always average men, that summoned the courage, honor and will to do extraordinary things that would change the world.… — Tonny Brown Copy Share Image
“Oh God Angel," he whispered. "There's only one monster here." ~Sade~” — Lucian Bane Copy Share Image
When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes. — Bernard Marcus Copy Share Image
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
Dr. King has long been my hero. I didn't get to work with him much, but my husband did in the early… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
AJ Styles was a model for me, Chris Hero was a model for me, and to now realize that I am becoming… — Cedric Alexander Copy Share Image
I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else.… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
