A Quote by Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
American - Novelist
April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986

Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.

Rudolf Hess

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

William Holden

I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

Christian Bale

I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.

George Augustus Henry Sala

Too far often, Black people are reminded of how far we have come as opposed to how far we can go. In doing this, we sleep on racism.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Jean Cocteau

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.

Spencer Grammer

My heroes are all dead. I've lots of heroes. My mum is a hero. She had to put up with me and my dad. She is one of my heroes. Some of my friends are heroes. There are so many. But heroes usually let you down, don't they? There is people I admire, people I respect.

Gavin Friday

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

Mary Hart

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Heinrich Böll

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.