#hero

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#chance #hero #i #jumped #never

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed. ↗

— Bob Riley

#during #hard #hard times #hero #heroes

Like it or not, your business became mine the minute you let me inside your body. ↗

— Suzanne Wright

#hot #possessive-hero #business

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#blood #conversely #downfall #great #heroes

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#cowards #generally #greatest #heroes #known

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. ↗

— May Sarton

#being #decent #hero #human #human being

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all. ↗

— Gale Sayers

#heroes #let us #look #make #need

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. ↗

— Gale Sayers

#fighting #heroes #hoax #iraq #men

My father was absent and he was a hero to me. ↗