Quotes About Hero

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes the story so desirable to the general population. They want to believe that karma works and the bad guys are always defeated in the end. But in a world where no one thinks they are the bad guy and everyone plays the victim, it is harder and harder to find the black-and-white of a situation. We are all the hero and we are all the monster it just depends on which way you look at it.

My great hero was that archetype of cheerful American normalcy, Norman Rockwell.

He's not a villain," Dorcas said, "He's a hero who happens to be on the other side of the war.

To seek pleasure makes a hero of anyone: you open yourself so entirely to fate.

To foresee pleasures makes anybody a poet...to seek pleasure makes a hero of anyone: you open yourself so entirely to fate.

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?

But, as many thought whenever they saw the graceful figure soaring through the air, it took a great hero and a terrible villain to make it all come about. And her name was Maleficent.

together. But, as many thought whenever they saw the graceful figure soaring through the air, it took a great hero and a terrible villain to make it all come about. And her name was Maleficent.

This was perhaps the final irony. Galileo the obedient Roman Catholic became an overnight Protestant hero. He would be remembered as a champion not only of science, but of the principle of free inquiry versus papist tyranny, in Milton's words "a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscans and Dominicans licensed.

Bildungsroman. It is a narrative of a young man steeped in Wilsonism who became intimately involved in the conference and who learned that his hero was not the man he thought he was.

Now you've seen a hero," he said. "And that's worth something." —Eckermann, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE

Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days

By living a life "against nature," the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Son Türkistan, gene kahraman?n? yaratacak ve bu kahraman bir bozkurt olacakt?. Ufuklardan bir bozkurt bekleniyordu. Bu bozkurt ç?kmal?yd?. Bir bayrak açmal?, bir devlet kurmal?, emirler verilip emirler al?nmal?yd?. Nitekim bir gün bütün bunlar? yapacak olan bozkurt, yani beklenilen kahraman ç?kt? da: Mustafa Kemal Pa?a...

The hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific vocabulary or technique for dealing with the real facts of history-- the opinions, emotions, attitudes; the wishes, plans, schemes; the habits of men. He can't talk about them so he talks about heroes.

When she woke in the morning, there would be no glass on the floor. No comforter lying on the chair. Hawk Cahill, the cowboy hero to the rescue, would have been only a dream in the middle of her waking nightmare.

My most revered hero is Robert Johnson. His lyrics are so consistent with rap: the danger, the boldness, the creativity.

I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.