A Quote by Tom Hiddleston

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

Tom Hiddleston

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Arrogant Cliched Good Greater Greater Good Human Human Frailties Lonely Often Overcome Proud Sounds Superheroes Vain

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Tom Hiddleston
English - Actor
Born: February 9, 1981

If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.

Henry B. Eyring

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

William Gilmore Simms

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

William Gilmore Simms

Sounds cliched, but I can't survive without my calendar.

Franchesca Ramsey

It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.

Emily Ratajkowski

As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

Oliver Sim

We can overcome evil with greater good.

Laura Bush

Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.

Christopher Hitchens

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

W. H. Auden

It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except for Wonder Woman and Black Canary and maybe one or two others. Now there are Spanish, Puerto Rican comic book superheroes, black superheroes, and women superheroes.

Neal Adams

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

Jeremy Piven

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Wei Wu Wei

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Frank Herbert

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Jef Raskin

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.