187 quotes found
“Why do we love heroes? Because life is a fight.”
“Besides, two kinds of people have the courage to make someone else's decisions: the hero, who comes to your rescue when you can't even cry out for help, and the tyrant. The only difference between ...”
“A society manufactures the heroes it requires.”
“Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and tak...”
“You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary tasks of living as a half-decent person. Does your mother fix you breakfast? She is a he...”
“A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.”
“The indie kids, huh? You've got them at your school, too. That group with the cool-geek haircuts and the charity shop clothes and names from the fifties. Nice enough, never mean, but always the one...”
“Colin reached out and grabbed hold o fine car engine, ripping it. He lifted it above his head. Solomon Cord dropped the wrench and said God it is true.”
“Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.”
“The hero, it might be said, is called into being when perception of a need an the recognition of responsibility toward it are backed up by the will to act.”
“To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an easy collapse into the madness of an increasingly chaotic world and represent another way.”
“Of all the stories I have read about heroes, and all that I could ever read, of one thing I'm certain-he is mine.”
“Is it not obvious? What is life but a betrayal? We start out young, full of hope. The sun is good, the world awaits us. But every passing year shows how small you are, how insignificant against the...”
“When she had asked him how he was able to kill two men with his bare hands, he had gone into asshole mode, telling her not to look a gift horse in the mouth.”
“For I was sure of one thing, it wasn't always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.”
“Remember when being a villain was all about wild nights and brawls in the street?”
“Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with ...”
“Meeting ones heroes is always such a disappointment.”
“Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting ”
“If something went wrong, hed pay the price. He couldnt allow any innocent people to be hurt this time. From HEAR NO EVIL”
