Top 1200 Real Heroes Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.

The whole sport, I feel like for years has done a great job trying to recognize the heroes amongst the country.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.

I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.

Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Our sport needs lethal strikers, goalscorers, heroes. But football is much more than the moment of triumph.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

I think fake boobs have done great things for real boobs. I think people finally appreciate real boobs. People like real boobs. I do. I also enjoy the fact that they are life-nourishers.

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Remember that other people are as real as you.Other people's feelings are as real as yours.In fact, our feelings are what make us real.

I like portraying heroes of antiquity whose values were grander and more spectacular than those of today.

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

We owe these heroes a great deal - it is our solemn responsibility to ensure that all veterans receive the care and respect they have earned.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

People in the South want heroes to be their own, whereas it is easier for them to accept a villain who hails from another state.

The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

A match against Pakistan is never an easy prospect - especially for goalkeepers in a penalty shootout. We can either become heroes or zeroes.

The SEALs have a sense of community I've never seen anywhere. Not just the guys but the wives, widows, kids of fallen heroes.

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male.

Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started.

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.