H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“Heroes may not live long in years, but they live forever in the stories.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.”
Source: JULIAN
“Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.”
“Heroes never last, but their impact outlives their lives.”
“Heroes of culture are often branded as enemy of the state.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.”
“Heroes rarely get to rest when they desire to.”
Source: The Lord of Dreams
“Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.”
“Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.”
“Heroes rise and fall; fact of life. You’ll win some and lose some; fact of life. Something will have to kill you eventually; that’s a fact of life. Have you accepted your mishap as a fact of life?”
Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters
“Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Heroes show us courage, honor, integrity and strength. Now more than ever, we need heroes.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“Heroes take chances, it's not easy to be your own hero if you stay in your comfort zone. Reaching for your dream may involve chances, but the only way to reach them is to try.”
“Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.”
“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.”
“Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.”
“Heroes were little more than fools waiting to find the one battle they couldn't win.”
Source: Never Die
“Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.”
“Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
“Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your sister can turn people to stone.' Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, boy! That was Medusa's curse alone. she was the most hideous one in the family. She got all the luck!" Stheno looked hurt. "Mother said I was the most hideous.”
“Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.”
“Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.”
“Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.”
Source: The Lord of Opium
“Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.”
Source: Tom Jones
“Heroes? Don't believe in them.”
“Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.”
“Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.”
“Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero; and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero.”
Source: Healology
“Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.”
“Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.”
Source: Snow
“Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.”
Source: The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell
“Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.”
“Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.”
“Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.”
“Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.”
Source: Gaudy Night: Lord Peter Wimsey
“Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.”
“Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection.”
“Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.”
“Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number.”
“heroine: a woman of heroic spirit; the principal female person who figures in a
remarkable action”
Source: Heroine
“Heroine: "You have no scruples about taking a woman from the man you believe she loves?"
Hero: "I'd take you from my own brother. I don't give a damn how I get you so long as I do.”
Source: Fever
“Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.”
Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910
“Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“Heroines in novels glowed when they were in love. They hummed. They found the world a better place. But love wasn’t like that. It hurt and made her weep into her pillow. She grew pale. She was incapable of finding enjoyment in even the most pleasurable of pursuits.”
Source: Not Just Lovely Laura
“Heroines of American journalism, writing in publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post, and reporting for major television networks, have all played a similar role of legitimizing America's new imperial project in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Middle East at large, promoting a narrative that violent military incursions are designed to liberate women and deliver better societies. Thus they also underscore their own superior status as white feminists, with their values of rebellion over resilience, risk over caution, and speed over endurance as the ultimate feminist values. Afghan women emerge as no more than prototypes whose wishes always align with what white feminists think they should want, rather than as people with independent political positions and perspectives.”
Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”
“Heroism, as I have so often discovered, is mostly a matter of turning up in the wrong place with the wrong hat, and then bluffing until everyone applauds.”
Source: The Mostly Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder