Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own...

When I was young, ‘Scarface’ was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

Her statistics were more than a study… For her, Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique Sociale is annotated by her on every page. Florence Nightingale believed—and in all...

The only thing I hate worse than a hero is a stupid hero.

Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.

Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That’s why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I love ‘Guitar Hero,’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture.

I don’t want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think [Shore] intends to do the right thing, but...

A miracle occurred, two hundred pure souls, condemned to death, did not weep. Not one of them ran away. None tried to hide. Like stricken swallows they clung to their teacher and mentor, to their...

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to...

All of the guys in my unit are real heroes. They would have done the exact same thing I did. We were there to take care of our mission and of our fellow soldiers. We...

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

As the hero learns, readers learn too.

People love super heroes. It’s true we’re impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities. So why our admiration for the hero...

Alexa, the speakerphone is on,” Caine’s amused voice sounded from my desk.Oh, balls.

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

My hero is Roger Federer.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you’ve given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

My left foot is the wisdom from yesterday, my right foot is the vision of tomorrow and my mind is focused on the work of today and this is how I stand a winner.

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.

I’m really not that good at Guitar Hero!

Here’s to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes.” – commentary on Castles on the Sand

And you have all these Flash Thompsons and Harry Osborns hovering around you, trying to make a move. Because…you’re basically amazing.

Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!

The thought of talking about it made Pueblo’s gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy had been through – not that she’d told him her version yet. She had balls of steel,...

Calculation never made a hero.

Julius Caesar was an aristocrat who sided with the Roman people. He’s not my hero, but he was one of a long line of what we’ll call ‘populares,’ which were popular leaders who tried to...

I think Michael Moore is a hero.

But what’s left on earth that I haven’t tried?” Prince Lír demanded. “I have swum four rivers, each in full flood and none less than a mile wide. I have climbed seven mountains never before...

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

You know you’re like, my hero, right?

I’ve been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children’s hero for so long.

{The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll’s funeral, quoted here}Whereas, in the order of nature — that nature which moves with unerring certainty in obedience to fixed laws — Robert G. Ingersoll has gone to that...

Dear Diary, the Heroine never cries.

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.

A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and...

I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, ‘To my beloved Hector,’ and I thought, by God she’s cheating on me, and...

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Bass is one of those unsung heroes like Sanders who comes out every night and gives us six, eight, 10 points. We try to give the kids more freedom out there, and they are a...

They want to be heroes; they want to bring back that championship.

You saved me,” Gray repeated firmly to Aric. And then he kissed him.

He was everything I needed because his entire character had been molded by my deepest wants and desires. He was my rock when I cried, my playmate when I laughed, and my hero when I...

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn’t be death.

The Supreme Court judges, they are real heroes today,

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!