Heroes Quotes
1173 Heroes quotes by 917 unique authors
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They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
— Norman Finkelstein
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky…
— H.G. Wells
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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get…
— Christopher Dawson
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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…
— E. M. Forster
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The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.
— Derek Jeter
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Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving…
— Stephen King
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This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything…
— Wilfred Owen
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They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth,…
— Lester Bangs
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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
— Havelock Ellis
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The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
— Mao Zedong
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The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least…
— William B. Davis
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Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.
— Robert D. Putnam
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I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
— Bob Feller
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For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their…
— Peter Thiel
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I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
— Norman Spinrad
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I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
— Geoffrey Canada
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A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor....
— Winston Churchill
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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten…
— Frank Miller
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All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.
— Jo Nesbo
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I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill…
— Sam Houston
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