H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Heroes can lose their way. Sometimes, heroes can go missing from even themselves. Have you ever had that feeling in your own life?”
“Heroes come along when you need them.”
“Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.”
“Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”
“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found, some people instead found transcendence by displaying kindness toward other people. Through small, everyday acts that committed them to the survival of other human beings--even at the cost of lowering their own chances--they demonstrated their own commitment to an abstract yet personal value. Although heroic acts were as suicidal in twentieth-century death camps as they were in nineteenth-century slave labor camps, even in hell there was still room to be a moral human being.”
Source: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
“Heroes did not always swoop in to rescue. They made questionable calls. They lived with doubts. They replayed and edited and imagined different outcomes. They killed, sometimes, to save.”
Source: A Spark of Light
“Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.”
“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”
Source: Second Glance
“Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.”
“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”
“Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.”
“Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.”
Source: Civilisation
“Heroes do not speak of their bravery, they let their deeds speak for them.”
“Heroes do things that get people to believe in them. Superheroes do things that get people to believe in themselves.”
“Heroes don't always have capes, badges or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.”
“Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.”
Source: Everneath
“Heroes don't get happy endings”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“heroes don’t haunt
so what did that make you”
Source: you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry
“Heroes don't have an ego, but dictators do.”
“Heroes don't have friends, they have fans.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Heroes don’t have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Heroes don’t seek attention. But they show up continually in the little things. Train your eyes to look for them. They may not be as loud as the headlines or newsfeeds. But they’re all around you, multitudes of them. Train your eyes and listen with your heart… Both rightfully know that the quiet things, the little things, they are the big things. They are far more important than the noise of the world.”
“Heroes don't stand in line, they set out alone into the unknown and lines form behind them.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Heroes don't get anything but dead.”
Source: The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.”
Source: Shoeless Joe
“Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.”
“Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.”
“Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting”
“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
“Heroes give hope.”
“Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.”
“Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.”
“Heroes
Heroes kill their enemies
Theatre war
Usually
With the sword
With the rifle
With the bomb
With words
With bare hands
With hatred in their eyes
Dazzled
Inside
From hatred furrowed
As machines
Stereotype
Inside
Cold steel
Inside
True Heroes
Counter
Their enemies inside
Delete the flames
The delusions of
The unrestrained blaze
Without the sword
Without the gun
Without the bomb
Without words
Without using bare hands
To kill people”
“Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to lose. At my age and in my profession, prudence is more than just a virtue, it's an instinct.”
Source: The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid
“HEROES?” I laughed. “Look at the world! There’s nothing heroic about it… No, this world could burn, for all I care… and so could everyone in it.”
Source: The Timekeeper's Secret
“Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear”
Source: Framley parsonage
“Heroes in fact die with one's youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies were always blue, the sun shone and the air was filled with the sounds and scents of grass being cut. I find myself still as desperate to read the Sussex score in the stop-press as ever I was; but I no longer worship heroes, beings for whom the ordinary scales of human values are inadequate. One learns that as one grows up, so do the gods grow down. It is in many ways a pity: for one had thought that heroes had no problems of their own. Now one knows different!”
Source: Cricket Heroes: 21 leading writers, members of the Cricket Writers Club, on great cricketers
“Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.”
Source: Cecil Dreeme
“Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.”
Source: The Refrigerator Monologues
“Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“Heroes inevitably experience at least one very big failure that tests whether they have the resilience to come back and fight smarter and with more determination.”
Source: Principles: Life and Work
“Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there’s another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.”
“Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
Source: The Last Unicorn
“Heroes like you always have a weak spot. We just have to find it, and then we can kill you. Won't that be lovely? Have a cheese 'n' Wiener!”
“Heroes made lousy partners in business and in love. The courage to face death was not always a virtue. It could be the ultimate cop-out. If she died in a noble cause, she didn't have to face the boredom of day-to-day existence.”
Source: Falling
“Heroes make us smile because they not only rescue us outwardly, but inwardly too.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired.”
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”