Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
“They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero;… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
“We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
“But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could… — Paul Russell 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
“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship… — Aung San Copy Share Image
“Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“This kind of hero worship has been promoted by politicians and their complicit media since the middle of the last century. Once… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“I see. And who is this author?” “Neil Fucking Gaiman.” “His second name is Fucking?” “No, Leif, that’s the honorary second name… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“Don’t make that mistake again,” he said in a voice so quiet it was barely audible. He looked as if all his… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Saint-worship is not the same as hero-worship; it is a much less dangerous thing than hero-worship. For hero-worship generally means the absorption… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
“It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Christ invites us to assume the yoke, but we would rather ride in the cart. That is one reason why some find… — Terry Givens Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
