Top 1200 Unlikely Heroes Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

In fact, the fast-changing, dynamic character of London makes perpetual Labour domination unlikely. Things are so fast-moving it would be impossible to say what the situation might look like in five years, let alone 10 or 15.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

In 1999, I found myself the unlikely leader of a community-based effort to protect what was arguably Colorado's most important brand, and one once thought to be untouchable: the 'Mile High' part of Denver's Mile High Stadium.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.

Romantic heroes and heroines are a bit different from the sort of people we run into every day.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

I think it's very unlikely that we're going to see a trade war between the United States and Mexico because it's in nobody's interest to see a trade war.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

It was fun trying to use a few different voices for the vocal track on 'Country Heroes.'

I wholeheartedly believe that super heroes can play in virtually any storytelling genre.

I get starstruck... I don't know, because a lot of my heroes are my really good friends.

Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

There are no heroes and heroines in 'Naan.' All of us play different characters, and have equally important roles.

If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

I met all my heroes on the oldies circuit: Gary U.S. Bonds, Lloyd Price, Little Richard.

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

My favorite comics show the real-life struggles of heroes as well as the fantastical.

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.

'The Sopranos' was a very East Coast show; 'Heroes' is more organically global.

Britain has lots of celebrities who are well known and admired today, but we don't seem to have any heroes.

'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.