…the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

Let’s get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession.

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear...

And you,You can be meanAnd I,I’ll drink all the time’Cause we’re lovers,And that is a factYes we’re lovers,And that is that

Unhappy the land that has no heroes? No. Unhappy the land that needs heroes. Bertolt Brecht: The Life of Galileo.

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a...

You know. The kind of love you have for someone you want to be like: Marines, astronauts, cowboys, teachers, big brothers, that sort of thing. You love them because they represent the you that you...

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.

They’re so brave,” she said. “They’re all dead.” “Only a coward would think of that,” she said scornfully.

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

It’s better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero

That’s what this suit’s always been about. Not scaring people like you or Gorgon do. Not some sort of pseudo-sexual roleplay or repressed emotions. I wear this thing, all these bright colors, because I want...

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.

For happiness don’t pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.

Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every one of them is looking to be a hero. We are all hoping for it, and trying for it, and...

is the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation’s door, that they fought on...

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good…and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them…One person can make a difference!(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted...

Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he’s one of my heroes. I’ll never forget being at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the year Bruce and Paul...

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

You were the one who taught me,” he said. “I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero...

I love ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

I wonder if it’s a special sin to lie to a nun

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

We don’t need wings to be angelsWe don’t need reasons to be rightYour love makes us all betterThat who we really areAngels and heroes at heart

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo che lo avrebbe torturato durante gli interrogatori. L’Elefante non era fatto per stare in prigione perché membro di una qualche organizzazione...

Someday when we’re older, we’ll learn who to trust. But heroes and saviors, can’t save folks like us.

I’m not a legend or a hero, I don’t slay dragons, I don’t do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for...

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we’re being heroic, it usually means we’re about to kill each other–or kill ourselves.

It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be.

Hereos. Idols. They’re never who you think they are. Shorter. Nastier. Smellier. And when you finally meet them, there’s something that makes you want to choke the shit out of them.

‘Tim and Raine are coming in.’ ‘Are they insane?’ ‘Apparently.’

I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel bastards. And I dislike heroes. You can’t trust the buggers. They always let you down. I don’t believe...

If monkey became a man, then a man can become a hero.

If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation.

And you came back to Lyrian?” Galloran said in disbelief.”Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to...

En aquellos días aprendí que nada da más miedo que un héroe que vive para contarlo, para contar lo que todos los que cayeron a su lado no podrán contar jamás.

I like to call her Doctor Fisher.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

see, heroes never die. John Wayne isn’t dead, Elvis isn’t dead. Otherwise you don’t have a hero. You can’t kill a hero. That’s why I never let him get older.

Los traidores de hoy pueden ser los héroes del mañana, y viceversa; sobre todo si toman el poder.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

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.

I’m just a kid, Chiron,” I said miserably. “What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?”Chiron managed a smile. ‘”What good is one lousy hero’? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to...