Articles Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

It's dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.

— Megan Ganz

I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the…

— Gail Carson Levine

Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon Blair] wanted…

— Melanie Lynskey

I don't feel like a hero.

— Yance Ford

There's a bit of a reluctance on my part to promote myself as any kind of hero because the things I've had to overcome…

— Faith Salie

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the…

— Barack Obama

it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was…

— Lauren Oliver

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if…

— Dario Fo

The events of my twenties felt historic, but the people involved did not. I wanted a hero - someone who could make sense of…

— Ben Rhodes

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

— Finneas

It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so…

— Emun Elliott

I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it,…

— Alan Arkin