Heroes Quotes

1173 Heroes quotes by 917 unique authors

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre. — Julie Walters
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. — James D. Watson
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. — Gerard Way
I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. — Joss Whedon
It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters...… — Joss Whedon
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. — Alfred North Whitehead
The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national… — George Will
I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things. — Steven Wright
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not… — Philip Zimbardo
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want… — Julian Baggini
Cinema is much more than heroes and villains. — Anurag Kashyap
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. — John Oliver
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. — Peter S. Beagle
All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. — Libba Bray
Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately,… — Brady Udall
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very… — Mark Twain
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that… — Jhumpa Lahiri
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. — Mark Twain
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have… — Anne Frank
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that… — Joseph Campbell
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble… — Victor Hugo
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known;… — Joseph Campbell
A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People… — Mark Helprin

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