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“Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.”
“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
“Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”
“Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won't have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I'd rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes messing...”
“No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.”
“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great q...”
“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”
“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”
“Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jaces last name. It was the name of heroes.”
“Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.”
“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.”
“But no man's a hero to himself.”
“Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.”
“To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but just that one is willing to stand.”
“I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well, the Marquess took Septembers hand in ...”
“I'm still angry with him, but I follow him through the drizzle anyway. Because this is Levi. This is my hero. And you always follow your heroes, even when you're mad, even when you'd rather punch t...”
“see, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you dont have a hero. You cant kill a hero. Thats why I never let him get older.”
“The story of John Ritter illustrates what it means to be a hero and how we treat our heroes. When we idealize real people they lose their humanity. They are turned into idols that we worship and ma...”
“It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.”
“Your grandfather was a hero in a war, girls. He wasn't a bad man or a weak man. Maybe he was too old to have a second family, a second wife and your mother and me, so many years after he lost his f...”
