Hero Quotes - Page 27

• For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Real, Men

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

  Thomas Hughes

  Kings, Lying, Believe

  Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.334, The Floating Press

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• The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

  Graham Greene

  Literature, World

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• Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead us to goodness, beauty, strength and health? Where are those who utter heartwarming words, who will lead us out of the wilderness? Our homes are gone and the nation is destroyed, yet we have no Jeremiah crying out his last sad song to the world and to posterity.

  Lu Xun

  Song, Home, Warrior

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• Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Memories, Book

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

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• One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

  John Carpenter

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Thinking

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• A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

  Matthew Fox

  People, Perfect, Want

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• Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

  Dan Brown

  Interesting, Villain, Reason

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• If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

  Sting

  Men, He Man, Manners

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• I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

  Luke Ford

  Kings, Book, Abraham

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• Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

  William Nicholson

  Novel, Deserve

  "A class divide" by William Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  "General Norman Schwarzkopf dies, aged 78" by Conal Urquhart, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2012.

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• My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

  Alan King

  Father, Smart, Guy

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• What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Men, Climbing

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.

  Fritz Leiber

  Humorous, Should, Knows

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• I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

  Chris Carter

  Children, Men, Guy

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• Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

  Kenneth Clark

  Tolerate, Company

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

  David Mallet

  Despair, Prove

  David Mallet (1759). “The Works of David Mallet...: Alfred, a masque. The life of Francis Bacon”, p.20

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• I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

  Colin Wilson

  Thinking, People, Important

  Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.370, Diversion Books

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• I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

  Sam Worthington

  Believe, Literature, Down And

  Source: collider.com

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• Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.

  Rhys Ifans

  Kings, Queens, Grief

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please."

  Hayden Panettiere

  Watches, Lasts, Episodes

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Wish, Sides, Kind

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• When people do love our show [Heroes] and they put on the costumes, they know everything about our characters. And it is overwhelming at the same time. But you know, it's something that we're grateful and that's the reason why our show's continued to succeed.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Grateful, Character, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

  Virginia Madsen

  Growing Up, Males, Really Cool

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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