Top 1200 Unlikely Heroes Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.

Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds.

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

An unlikely source of inspiration? My nieces and nephews. I feel encouraged to keep going because I know that if I keep going, then I can tell them to keep going.

I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.

When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His grace by preserving their souls in the midst of the most unpromising environments. His saints are found in very unlikely places.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

America will never forget the service and sacrifice of our 9/11 heroes and their families.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

The names, the legends, my heroes, the College Football Hall of Fame is a really amazing fraternity.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away.

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives bit by bit. Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable item makes its appearance: the notebook.

Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

I never knew Mother Teresa, but I admired her, especially in this day and age when there aren't many heroes.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

I am at A and going all the way to Z is high unlikely in any career, let alone football. You have to weave your way like the river, pick up your skills and keep going.

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.