187 quotes found
“We were supposed to be heroes.Theres no such thing as heroes.Conversation between Alis K and BorgeThe Informer by Steen Langstrup”
“It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero”
“Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with what they have, how hard they are willing to fight, and how far they are ...”
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero”
“Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.”
“There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes”
“Let's Not Just Be Heroes! Let's Be Heroes Who Lead!”
“The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should just say, poor Camille, she turned into a bitch the way most peopl...”
“He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldnt eat too much of it at once.I nodded slowly. Right, I said. Thatssweet, I think.”
“In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.”
“Theres a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kill...”
“When a man losses faith he betrays a hero”
“Now, where do I bring this thing down?" I asked. There was a hesitation, then, "You don't. We didn't design it to return. It was a redundancy we had no need for. Too costly, in terms of resources."...”
“Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”
“Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.”
“Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.”
“Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara ...”
“A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.”
“When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.”
