187 quotes found
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”
“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
“I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?”
“To quote French author Francois Mauriac, 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.”
“Do not be so ridiculous, I can more easily find you someone else. Gripping the bars of his prison so strongly that the bones of his knuckles showed prominently through his pale skin, the monster gr...”
“That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.”
“when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.”
“Take away the people's bread and you get discontent; take away their money and you get anger, but take away their heroes and you get revolution.”
“There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the Sure)”
“War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.”
“You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster.”
“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”
“I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than othersabove all, those who dont sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risks ...”
“My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.”
“Someday when we're older, we'll learn who to trust. But heroes and saviors, can't save folks like us.”
“You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinati...”
“The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequence...”
“The problem with heroes and villains is that its not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.”
“It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside.”
“Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.”
