Quotes of: Heroes Keyword

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

Alan Dershowitz

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Katharine Lee Bates

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

Felix Adler

Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

Jake Gyllenhaal

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Jessalyn Gilsig

One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.

Jim Lee

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

Brad Henry

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.

Sarah MacLean

A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

Frank Grillo

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

Felicity Jones

The least you need to do for humanity to be a hero is to ensure that bad things don't get worse

Constance Chuks Friday

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

John Barrowman

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

Dennis Ritchie

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

Ed Belfour

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Bobby Seale

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Charles Horton Cooley

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

C. J. Cherryh

Dreams allow our private heroes to show up again and again, just when we need them most.

Gregory MacGuire

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

Jerry Robinson