A Quote by Peter Weiss

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

Peter Weiss

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Heroes Left Long Long Ago

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Peter Weiss
German - Writer
November 8, 1916 - May 10, 1982

I am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago they left. Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities, and you really have an America that is back on its feet, a comfortable nation to live in again. I really think we're gonna have to reassess what constitutes a hero.

Tom McCall

We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

Mary Pipher

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

Ann Brashares

I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.

Errol Morris

Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.

Marvin Gaye

Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful.

Robert Brunner

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

Nick Mancuso

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

William Saroyan

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

Ben Marcus

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

Princess Diana

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

Donal Henahan

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

Nathan Myhrvold

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Michael Steinhardt

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

Edward Snowden

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

Gordon Gould

Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.

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