Quotes About Heroism

sublevatas. Una de las últimas fue Calahorra, que ofreció heroica resistencia popular —de ahí viene el antiguo refrán: Calahorra, la que no resiste a Roma es zorra—

Ante semejante atropello, los diputados republicanos juraron morir heroicamente antes que traicionar a la patria; pero tan ejemplar resolución duró hasta que oyeron el primer tiro al aire. Entonces todos salieron corriendo, incluso arrojándose por las ventanas. Y de esa forma infame y grotesca fue como acabó, apenas nacida, nuestra desgraciada Primera República.

El heroísmo ajeno siempre conmueve una barbaridad.

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

If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

Deformed persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious. For he that cannot possibly mend his own case, will do what he can, to impair another's; except these defects light upon a very brave, and heroical nature, which thinketh to make his natural wants part of his honor; in that it should be said, that an eunuch, or a lame man, did such great matters; affecting the honor of a miracle; as it was in Narses the eunuch, and Agesilaus and Tamberlanes, that were lame men.

I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.

I put ordinary people in jeopardy and give them the opportunity to be heroic. Then there's a great payoff for the reader at the end, when the heroic character gets what he or she deserves. Readers will come back again and again if they feel satisfied at the end.

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.

Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?

My grandfather Urey was my hero. He worked three jobs. He had a dry cleaner's factory job in the day and a dry cleaner's factory job at night and when that was done with that, he mopped floors in a restaurant.

'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.

Wait a minute, even I've hearda him. He died savin' the entire universe. Choked on cum...

Yep, said Arthur. Somehow yep seemed the most positive thing he could say. Stronger than yeah and more heroic than yes . He hoped he could live up to it.

I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf

Certain strains of music affect me so strangely - I can never hear them without their changing my whole attitude of mind for a time, and if the effect would last, I might be capable of heroisms.

We see human heroism broken into units and say, this unit did little—might as well not have been. But in this way we might break up a great army into units; in this way we might break the sunlight into fragments, and think that this and the other might be cheaply parted with.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.