Hero Quotes - Page 29

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Freedom, Air, Bondage

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.81, Library of America

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• So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Paganism, Spirit, Ancient

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.14, 北戴河出版

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• If the hero is not a person, the emblem
  Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
  To stand taller than a person stands, has
  A wider brow, large and less human
  Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body
  Of a primitive.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Men, Ears

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Believe, America

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• Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.

  James Boswell

  Character, Air, Numbers

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Running, Pride

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• Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.

  Johan Huizinga

  Men, Battle, England

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• Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Young Entrepreneurs, Years

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• As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who hiss orcheer as he attempts to approximate the masculine ideal, who push him to sacrifice more of his humanity for the sake of his masculinity, and who ridicule him when he holds back. The chorus is made up of all the guy's comrades and rivals, his buddies and bosses, his male ancestors and his male cultural heroes--and above all, his father, who may have been a real person in his life, or may have existed only as the myth of the man who got away.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Real, Sacrifice

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• You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Eye, Desire

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• When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.

  Stefan Zweig

  Years, Accomplishment, Creative

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• Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Reading, Heart, Past

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• I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  Fanny Burney

  Children, Greatness, Men

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• I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.

  Lynda Carter

  Leadership, Beautiful, Fashion

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• My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

  Mark McKinnon

  Brother, Emotional, Sober

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• I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater, that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Powerful, Reality, Thinking

  "Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins THOR Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. May, 2011.

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• I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet. I love doing them, but sometimes you wanna completely try something different and create something unique and get lost in it a bit because it's completely far away from me.

  Sam Worthington

  Unique, Trying, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy.

  Jon Fitch

  Bored, Guy, Fans

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• One day you are the hero and the next day you are the zero. I got to take advantage of every opportunity that I have.

  Charlie Brenneman

  Zero, Opportunity, Next Day

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

  Arthur Desmond

  Stamps, Disobedience

  "Might is Right". Book by Ragnar Redbeard, Chapter 5: The Chief End of Manhood, 6, 1890.

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• It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Two, Pages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.

  Naomi Klein

  Dream, Mirrors, Leader

  "The unknown icon" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2001.

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• Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Support, Excellence

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• Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

  Arthur Ashe

  Adversity, Black, Faces

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• He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

  Steve Earle

  Teacher, Real, Eric

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