Hero Quotes - Page 94

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.

Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

He's into you, isn't he. Answer the question, Marissa. Flyboy with the superhero plasma... he wants you, doesn't he?" -Butch and Marissa

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

Once you play a superhero, is there any way back again? Once you're a superhero, it's just crazy.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!