Quotes About Hero

Life sucks when you find out Superman's a jerk.

My hero finally found me in that too-high tower, rescued me from it's cold walls, set me down among free men and bolted. Freedom, with all it's possibilities, just feels cold and lonely. I want to go back to my tower. I need those walls. I need the protection. The walls were always my true plus-one.

Underneath […] I find what Sasha has entitled "The Rules of Romance." The are as follows: 1. Everyone deserves to be worshipped. 2. There's a hero inside all of us. 3. The hero and heroine are fine on their own but know they're better together. 4. Risk your heart, it's worth it. 5. Always believe in a happy ending.

I want a hero: an uncommon want

Kit Darling has become a celebrity. An underdog's hero. Everyone is rooting for her." "Charge her with what?" asks Ben. "Fraud? Extortion? Obstruction of justice? Staging a false scene—isn't that a criminal offense?" Renata says, "Usually a false scene relates to falsifying evidence in order to obscure or obfuscate a real homicide investigation.

Pretend you still believe I'm that superhero

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they would call 'hard but necessary steps' for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

Hey, He croaked. You. Arrogant bitch ghost. I'm not really into this whole hero thing, Mort said. Don't have the temperament for it. Don't know a lot about the villain side of the equation, either. He planted his feet,facing the Corpsetaker squarely, his hands clenched into fist at his side. But it seems to me, you half-wit, that you probably shouldn't have left a freaking ectomancer a pit full of wraiths to play with.

We're all the hero of our own story.

He'd died a hero. It seemed so empty to me, at that moment. Meaningless to be a hero.

It's one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?" And that's how I knew that Mort was telling the whole truth when he said he wasn't a hero. Heroes know better than to hand the universe lines like that.

I hope you're one of the good guys, Mr. Dresden. We really need a good guy. I

Why have we made a folk hero of a man who is the antithesis of all our official heroes, a haunted millionaire out of the West, trailing a legend of desperation and power and white sneakers?

Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies.

He was the cleanest-cut comic-book schoolboy hero imaginable.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

You might want to intellectualize your intentions, "I'm doing an allegory on the state of modern man in relation to the inherent dignity of the human soul." That's great. Save it for the interview after your movie is a hit. To write it, think in terms of one man, not mankind. Ask yourself, "Suppose event x happens to him. What would my hero do about it?

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

My dad was my hero, my best friend.