Quotes of: Heroes Keyword

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Willie Stargell

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

E. W. Howe

Like Goethe's offers a wide panorama of scenes from the vulgar to the sublime, with passages of wondrous poetry that can be sensed even through the veil of translation. And it also preserves the iridescence of its modern theme. From it Oswald Spengle...

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yieldi...

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart, that like Hamlet, or like Arjuna, one may refuse to go on with it. On the oth...

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Look, cat, you and I are never going to be friends. She’s going to call you Max, but I’m going to call you Shit Head. And if you think for one second—” The cat lies down in a tight little ball of nastiness and falls asleep. “Oh, please. Mak...

The Warrior

Brian Taylor: You feel like a hero? Mike Zavala: No. Brian Taylor: Yeah, me neither. What's a hero feel like? Mike Zavala: I don't know, man. Did I tell you that me and Gabby got in a huge fight over the fire? Brian Taylor: Nope, you didn't tell me t...

End of Watch

Baymax: [to Hiro, who's stuck and buried under a pile of action figures] On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain? Hiro: [irritated] Zero. Baymax: It is alright to cry. Hiro: No! No, no, no, no, no! Baymax: [picks up Hiro and holds him ...

Big Hero 6

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

The Curse of the Mistwraith

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.

Courageous

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Casino Royale

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

Dune

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Europa: Limited Time Edition

She stood on the edge of tomorrow, a one person vanguard that believe. The city would soon follow her lead.

Hero of the Day

Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

Honey the Hero

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

The High King

He and his brothers were heroes at heart - even if they were all bad boy on the outside

Burning Up

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Robert Wyatt

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

Andrew Coyle Bradley