187 quotes found
“One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values - whether these values be work goals the love of another human being ...”
“Don't be so humble. You're not that great.”
“Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.”
“All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.”
“This thing of being a hero about the main thing to it is to know when to die.”
“One murder makes a villain millions a hero.”
“The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.”
“An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.”
“In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.”
“It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.”
“You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.”
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”
“I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.”
“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
“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 g...”
“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.”
“I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risk...”
“Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.”
“Blobfish, the guy who snapped a hamsters neck, myself, the homeless guy who has never thrown a punch (but has killed a fox) and Dickface, the man obsessed with trees and touching himself in public,...”
“The problem with heroes and villains is that it’s not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.”
