Hero Quotes

#1. In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey. #Quote by Philip Sidney

#2. There once was a hero who flew too close to the sun. His wings of wax fell apart and he plummeted to the earth. #Quote by Hiromu Arakawa

#3. If I order an appetizer is there any chance I can get it quickly? I'm two and a half months pregnant with a Bradford," she said, not mentioning it was twins because the thought was actually starting to scare her and she hadn't told Trevor yet and didn't want him finding out this way. She just hoped the woman understood because she was close to crying. Judging by the slightly startled look on the woman's face she did.
The waitress shook her head. "No, you're right. You probably won't be able to survive the wait," she said, sending Trevor, who was still trying to get the woman to leave, a glare. "I'll bring you out a bowl of clam chowder followed by chicken fingers, they'll only take a few minutes to prepare. Will that work?"
Zoe nodded solemnly. "You are my hero."
"I'll put a rush on your food," the waitress said before walking away.
"Bless you," Zoe said, fighting the urge to kiss the woman. #Quote by R.L. Mathewson

#4. I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks. #Quote by Tim Burton

#5. Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me ... I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do. #Quote by Malcolm X

#6. Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'
If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information. #Quote by Margaret Mitchell

#7. There's no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it's enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it's the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade! #Quote by Marcus L. Lukusa

#8. The day when a person that is looking at me, and my works will say "Here's my Hero!", that will be my triumph day. #Quote by Jeren Altel

#9. I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America. #Quote by Jefferson Davis

#11. Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall. #Quote by Dwight Longenecker

#12. Where Ibn al-Arabi had written for the intellectual, Rumi was summoning all human beings to live beyond themselves, and to transcend the routines of daily life. The Mathnawi celebrated the Sufi lifestyle which can make everyone an indomitable hero of a battle waged perpetually in the cosmos and within the soul. The Mongol invasions had led to a mystical movement, which helped people come to terms with the catastrophe they had experienced at the deeper levels of the psyche, and Rumi was its greatest luminary and exemplar. #Quote by Karen Armstrong

#13. Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs. #Quote by Dalai Lama

#14. Aileen, I wish I could've taken you there.
It's too late now. I wish you hadn't hurt all those people.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know you hate it when I say that,
what I meant was that I wish all those people hadn't hurt you.

("Aileen Wuornos Isn't My Hero") #Quote by Olivia Gatwood

#15. I want you to see me for who I am now. You're determined to think I'm helpless. I'm still twelve years old and orphaned to you, so maybe it is wrong for you to fuck me, Liam. If you can't treat me like a woman then you don't deserve to keep me. You don't get to be the hero and the villain. #Quote by Skye Warren

#16. In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. #Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

#17. Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes. #Quote by George Takei

#18. I look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Subcomandante Marcos, Eduardo Galeano, James Baldwin. These books are, if they are instructions at all, instructions in extending our identities out into the world, human and nonhuman, in imagination as a great act of empathy that lifts you out of yourself, not locks you down into your gender.
("80 Books No Woman Should Read") #Quote by Rebecca Solnit

#19. When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson. #Quote by Leonardo DiCaprio

#20. Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. #Quote by Fred Rogers

#21. 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. #Quote by Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. in India, Bhakti or what may be called the path of devotion or hero-worship, plays a part in its politics unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any other country in the world. Bhakti in religion may be the road to the salvation of a soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship. #Quote by Ramachandra Guha

#23. The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. #Quote by George MacDonald

#24. He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.' #Quote by Roy Horn

#25. A story-book hero had by definition no place in life; he battered his way through twenty victorious chapters, faded out on a lustful kiss, and was gone for good. #Quote by Mary Stewart

#26. The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice. We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well. #Quote by Mark Felt

#27. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. #Quote by Mark Twain

#28. Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had. #Quote by Robert Pattinson

#29. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it. #Quote by Roger Kahn

#30. Quote from MOONLIGHT MAYHEM – pg 224 "Hero Intercedes":

His hands flickered upward, and before I knew it, they were cupping my face. So, damnably fast now. Demonic-like fast. Trent reeled me closer. Our foreheads joined. He held me, while I trembled in his arms. I was vaguely aware of Evans and Maxwell watching, although it didn't seem important. Nothing seemed important whenever he did this. It felt like we were enclosed in our own personal bubble made only for the two of us. Trent murmured something in my ear.

We stood like that until my shaky legs gradually regained strength. I shut my eyes and pretended my body wasn't sizzling with heat-lightning because Trent stood so close. My hormones always decided to rebel whenever he put his arms around me. And it wasn't totally awkward and uncomfortable.

No, it felt like the best thing I'd experienced since before Dad's death. And that's saying a lot. #Quote by Sherry J. Soule

#31. In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart. #Quote by Noah Hawley

#32. He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he'd remember to bring a comb. #Quote by J.V. Jones

#33. No one will ever understand like I do. You're so different with me, baby. You take care of me. You make me feel safe. You're not who you think you are. Didn't you once tell me that people aren't just one thing? You're so much more to me than anything you might have done in the past. #Quote by Samantha Young

#34. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. #Quote by Chris Hayes

#35. The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. #Quote by Mary McCarthy

#36. There's no rule that says you have to be a prodigy to be a hero," she insisted. "If people wanted to stand up for themselves or protect their loved ones or do what they believe in their hearts is the right thing to do, then they would do it. If they wanted to be heroic, they would find ways to be heroic, even without supernatural powers. #Quote by Marissa Meyer

#37. There was no sign he'd even been in a fight –Fucking Golden Boy. #Quote by Liz Thebart

#38. I didn't want to be a victim, some princess locked away in a tower, waiting to be saved. I wanted to be the hero of my story; I didn't need to be saved. At least I didn't want to be. #Quote by John Goode

#39. The last thing you will ever be in this world, girl, is someone's hero. But you will be a girl heroes fear. #Quote by Jay Kristoff

#40. The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim. #Quote by John T. Flynn

#41. The public loves to create a hero ... Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick. #Quote by Grace Metalious

#42. I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I? #Quote by Donald Pleasence

#43. Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective. Through my research, I obviously learned a lot, much of which made me sad, upset, disappointed and even angry, regarding what Jesse had to go through. Not only was he a black man in America during an age of high racial tension and segregation, but he was also living in the middle of the Great Depression - it was very difficult times for him and his family. #Quote by Stephan James

#44. Monsters were in the eye of the beholder. And no one wanted to discover their hero was the true villain of the story. #Quote by Kerri Maniscalco

#45. Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of our noblest feelings, - gratitude, love, and admiration. - but which, like all other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous consequences. #Quote by John Calvin

#46. They hate being unable to control you. #Quote by Jeff Mach

#47. Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero. #Quote by Carl Von Clausewitz

#48. That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children. #Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

#49. Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes, not villains, not avatars, not statuses, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Calvinists, not Emergents-just humans. This wouldn't mean we would stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we would disagree well. #Quote by Rachel Held Evans

#50. I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman? #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#51. There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like Achilles and Jason."
"Achilles was murdered with a poisoned
arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes; the Angel knows why anyone would want to be one. #Quote by Cassandra Clare

#52. Reaching up, he began using the exercise bar to do chin-ups. The repetitive act helped focus his mind as it multitasked. One thing was certain - he refused to never again experience the intimacy of being with Brenna. It wasn't the sex, though that had been the most amazing experience of his life. It was the way he'd made her laugh, made her smile, made her complain and then cuddle. All because she'd felt safe, reassured by the strength of their emotional connection.
He would not steal that feeling from her. And he most definitely was not going to surrender her to another male who could give her what she needed. The idea made him want to break something. #Quote by Nalini Singh

#53. The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero. #Quote by Ann Coulter

#54. You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul. #Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

#55. Intelligence is an angel. Virtue is a saint. Courage is a hero. Love is God. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#56. You broke me out of the grasp of a living horror when I thought all hope was gone. You gave me the opportunity to crawl back to life when no one else could."
She glances over at me, her eyes shining in the dark. "You're a hero, Penryn, whether you like it or not. #Quote by Susan Ee

#57. Let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air. #Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

#58. Losing the secret, he feels like a boy again. The boy he'd been before he had the secret. A kind of imp again. He gets from all her naturalness the pleasure and ease of being natural himself. If you're going to be a knight and a hero, you're armored, and what he gets now is the pleasure of being unarmored. #Quote by Philip Roth

#59. We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's. #Quote by Peter Coyote

#60. You are the devil's spawn," he spat out.

A wolfish grin pulled at my lips as I looked down at him. "Papa sends his regards, pay up and be gone. #Quote by Elle Beaumont

#61. You're the hero...," she said, finding his eyes,"...of your own story anyway. #Quote by V.E Schwab

#62. ...many forces that influenced the flow of the tale: boons and curses and manmade laws. There was no hero or villain in the epic, just people struggling with life, responding to crises, making mistakes, repeating mistakes, in innocence or ignorance, while trying to make their lives meaningful and worthwhile. #Quote by Devdutt Pattanaik

#63. People seemed to think it something special, something that marked him out an idiot hero. What #Quote by Robert Jordan

#64. Taleb's hero, on the other hand, is Karl Popper, who said that you could not know with any certainty that a proposition was true; #Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

#65. We have an agreement," she explained. "I watch nothing to do with a hobbit, Vulcan, or comic book hero, and in return, Dexter's not forced to sit through a foreign romance, a BBC production, or one my classic films. #Quote by Kristin Billerbeck

#66. Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. #Quote by Harvey Dent

#67. Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero. #Quote by Alex Bledsoe

#68. Boris has just given me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says. There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not Time, but Timelessness. We must get in step, a lock step, toward the prison of death. There is no escape. The weather will not change. #Quote by Henry Miller

#69. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. #Quote by Dalai Lama

#70. First thing you learn wandering the long roads, kid. Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story.
Pg328 #Quote by Sebastien De Castell

#71. Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life. #Quote by Sandeep Kumar

#72. If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways. #Quote by Esther M. Friesner

#73. Nell turned to the stretcher, took a deep breath, and peered down at the unconscious war hero. Immediately, a painful hollow feeling grew inside her, and her heart swelled with emotions from a time gone by. Even with the thick bandage across his eyes, she recognised this man. It was Jack Montgomery. Her pulse boomed as she paled with sickness. She gripped her wedding ring nervously, twisting it around and around. #Quote by LeeAnn Whitaker

#74. He made a costly error in judgement and sent an entire regiment into a virtual slaughterhouse. It happens frequently. Officers risk their troops' lives for the sake of a promotion. Not my father. He valued the life of every man under his command, from his officers to the humblest fresh recruit. When he realized what had happened, he was devastated. He couldn't ever forget that his error had cost the lives of so many men, created so many widows and orphans..."
"But, Lyon, measured against his valor, one mistake is forgivable."
"To us, yes. Not to him. He was sickened that the battle was hailed as one of the turning points of the war. He was decorated for it. It was considered a great victory, but it defeated him as a soldier, as a man. When he came home and was hailed a hero, he couldn't stand the conflict within himself. He didn't feel like a hero. He felt like a traitor."
"That can't be!"
"Not a traitor to his country, but to the men who had trusted his judgement and leadership. It was a conflict he never could reconcile, so he retired from the Army and came here and shut out the world and all reminders of the lie he was living."
They were quiet for a moment before she said,"No one would have thrown stones at him, Lyon. he was a respected man, a hero, a leader at a time in history when America needed heroes and leaders. It was a battleground that spread out for miles. Admist all the chaos he may have thought he made a mistake when he actually didn't. #Quote by Sandra Brown

#75. We can't let the next generation grow up without heroes. Some of us have to fight on! #Quote by Avijeet Das

#76. I spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time [ on The Dark Knight Rises] I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him. #Quote by Tom Hardy

#77. I was a jealous little she-reader; I resented pouring myself into the lives of hero-boys. #Quote by Margo Jefferson

#78. I'm going to wreck you, Rain… You'll be mine completely after this. You may deserve more than you're getting, but I won't let go once I've had you… #Quote by Setta Jay

#79. I like to say I'm not a hero. #Quote by Norman Schwarzkopf

#80. Everyone in my family is a hero to me. #Quote by Christy Carlson Romano

#81. His jerky breath hit her system like a drug and she was in thrall. Of his potency. And hers. She didn't want to stop. She wanted to keep going, keep touching him like this until he lost control. She wanted to bring him to his knees, this cocky young guy who called her baby and made her want things she hadn't even realized she'd been missing. #Quote by Amy Andrews

#82. This is who I am, Séraphine. Naked, with blade and blood. I am vengeance. I am hate. I am sin personified. Never mistake me for the hero of this tale, for I am not and shall never be. I am the villain. #Quote by Elizabeth Hoyt

#83. The ideal of the military hero is clearly echoed in other contexts, and it includes those who routinely risk their health and lives in the line of duty, such as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics. #Quote by Philip G. Zimbardo

#84. No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios:
Pebble : Beach
Raindrop : Ocean
Needle : Haystack #Quote by Zadie Smith

#85. Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind. #Quote by Dan Rosensweig

#86. Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part
I won't explain or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it's who we are
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
Just a boy, who had to sing this song
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
I! don't! care!
We'll carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches on #Quote by Gerard Way

#87. Courage is not an absence of fear, but an act of the will to move forward in the presence of fear. Fear whispers, "You might ... " Courage rebuffs it with, "Sure, but ... ." To seek a fearless life is not the same as seeking a life of courage. If we're talking about story, which is about nothing if not life, no one gives a damn about fearlessness. Very few great stories move forward with a fearless hero. Why would they? #Quote by David DuChemin

#88. Through being fired I was given the perfect circumstances to finally answer my calling and live my dream, and I remain grateful to this day for that television network firing me. Without them, I would have refused the call to follow my dream, and I would have missed living the most exciting and fulfilling journey of my life. #Quote by Rhonda Byrne

#89. I took his hand, he took a friend. All he has done is bite and claw for his own survival. Watching him now, so small and plain in a world of gods, it's almost as if he's the hero nobly struggling against a father who rejected him, against a Society that laughs at his size, his weakness, and scorns him as a cannibal even though it was they who told him to do whatever he had to do to win. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#90. Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint. #Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

#91. Poets represent love as sculptors design beauty, as musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature. There lived, it is said, at Athens a great number of beautiful girls; Praxiteles drew them all one after another; then from these diverse types of beauty, each one of which had its defects, he formed a single faultless beauty and created Venus. The man who first created a musical instrument, and who gave to harmony its rules and its laws, had for a long time listened to the murmuring of reeds and the singing of birds. Thus the poets, who understand life, after knowing much of love, more or less transitory, after feeling that sublime exaltation which real passion can for the moment inspire, eliminating from human nature all that degrades it, created the mysterious names which through the ages fly from lip to lip: Daphnis and Chloe, Hero and Leander, Pyramus and Thisbe.

To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is but to seek on public squares a woman such as Venus, or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven. #Quote by Alfred De Musset

#92. America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. #Quote by Gunnar Myrdal

#93. I see a man," she said softly. "A man with the roar of cannons still ringing in his ears. A man bloodied by life, but not beaten. A man with a scar that draws his mouth into a frown when he might actually long to smile. #Quote by Teresa Medeiros

#94. We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative. #Quote by Shane Claiborne

#95. I love the gray area between right and wrong. #Quote by Dan Brown

#96. You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story ... is you. #Quote by Jonathan Kent

#97. It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero. #Quote by Alexandra Kerry

#98. Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you? #Quote by Elizabeth Hoyt

#99. The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad. #Quote by John Wozniak

#100. What's a hero if not for its journey. #Quote by J.H. Wyman

#101. Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes #Quote by Martin Luther

#102. They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this. #Quote by Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#103. Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me
Virtue alone is true nobility! #Quote by Juvenal

#104. My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work. #Quote by Ricky Gervais

#105. Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? #Quote by J.M. Coetzee

#106. I've sometimes regretted the women I've been.

There have been so many: daughter, sister, cop, tough broad, several kinds of whore, jilted lover, ideal wife, heroine, killer.

I'll provide the truth of them all, inasmuch as I'm capable of telling the truth.

Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that's hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business.

They say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can't keep that secret, she can't keep yours.

I'm fifty-nine. #Quote by Becky Masterman

#107. The Cyclopes growled, I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're ... NO ... LADY ... CYCLOPES! #Quote by Rick Riordan

#108. And the seventh hero ... Leo Valdez?"
Nico raised his eyebrows. "You remember his name?"
"Of course! He invented the Valdezinator. Oh, what a musical instrument! I barely had time to master its major scales before Zeus zapped me at the Parthenon. If anyone could help me, it would be Leo Valdez. #Quote by Rick Riordan

#109. Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural working of the soul. #Quote by Walter Scott

#110. My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape. #Quote by Margaret D. Klein

#111. Lie back, baby. I'm about to fly you to the moon. #Quote by Amy Andrews

#112. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices. #Quote by Oscar Wilde

#113. Bleep, I hadn't fought a werewolf ever, and had never had to tase one who was actually expecting it. He grinned maliciously as we circled each other, each looking for an opening.
"I can smell your fear."
"Again with the lines! What do you think this is, a B movie? News flash: you are not a tortured hero and we're not going to have a hot make out scene after we fight. #Quote by Kiersten White

#114. Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. #Quote by Paul Tudor Jones

#115. Be a hero, if not for others, then for yourself. #Quote by Muktinath Vishwakarma

#116. If negative meant positive we'd be heroes. #Quote by Daniel Johns

#117. Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time. #Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

#118. That's it," Piper said. "That's the end." But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero comes home to find me gone. #Quote by Meg Rosoff

#119. Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. #Quote by Vivian Campbell

#120. I think Michael Moore is a hero. #Quote by Larry David

#121. 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. #Quote by Oliver

#122. I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match ... so ... I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero. #Quote by Oscar Gutierrez

#123. Zorro also is part of the bandido tradition, most closely associated with the possibly mythical Joaquin Murrieta and the historical Tiburcio Vasquez. As well as these local California legendary figures, Zorro is an American version of Robin Hood and similar heroes whose stories blend fiction and history, thus moving Zorro into the timeless realm of legend. The original story takes place in the Romantic era, but, more important, Zorro as Diego adds an element of poetry and sensuality, and as Zorro the element of sexuality, to the traditional Western hero. Not all Western heroes are, as D. H. Lawrence said of Cooper's Deerslayer, "hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer," but in the Western genre the hero and villain more often than not share these characteristics. What distinguishes Zorro is a gallantry, a code of ethics, a romantic sensibility, and most significant, a command of language and a keen intelligence and wit. #Quote by Robert E. Morsberger

#124. I miss the city of tomorrow - and the man of yesterday. #Quote by Tom Taylor

#125. 'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor. #Quote by Salma Hayek

#126. Reg: Speaking of blunt, dinner is on my bill tonight, mes amis.
Alex: What's the occasion?
Augustus: Lady Caroline's agreed to venture out on a picnic with out intrepid hero.
Kit: I don't know why you keep insisting she's smitten with me. I've barely spoken five sentences to her.
Augustus: It's very simple. Reg has thrown his entire being into pleasing Caroline. She knows every nuance of his thought and character. You, however, are a mystery to be explored, solved, and resolved. #Quote by Suzanne Enoch

#127. Sex makes people dumb."
Joss laughed. Never had truer words been spoken. "That's deep there, cowboy."
"Hey." He grinned. "I have layers, you know."
Oh yeah, he was a regular onion. #Quote by Amy Andrews

#128. I want your tongue back."
"And you'll get it." He pulled away only to tug his shirt off impatiently. #Quote by Samantha Young

#129. Jack Nightingale: "So I'm a hero?"
Supt. Chalmers: "No, Nightingale, you're an arsehole. But I can't arrest you for that. #Quote by Stephen Leather

#130. My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.' #Quote by Alan King

#131. She swallows and looks down at her hands clenched in her lap. "I don't like this story." "Should I jump to the ending? Spoiler alert: the hero saves her." Tabby looks over at me, her eyes shining like gems in the dark. "A real hero would teach the princess how to save herself. #Quote by J.T. Geissinger

#132. Everyone at Bellingham would know me, know who I was, by dinner. Would they consider me the hero or the fuckup? All I had wanted was to be anonymous. #Quote by Amber Dermont

#133. History is written by those who hang heroes. #Quote by Robert The Bruce

#134. Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero. #Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

#135. You would think that a man who's spent as much time in the theater as I have would know when the proper time came for the hero to die-if he was to be a hero. I missed my cue for the great suicide scene #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#136. Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path. #Quote by Marianne Williamson

#137. The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. #Quote by Joseph Campbell

#138. Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who's anyone in children's literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes don't go on hero quests. #Quote by Lynn Messina

#139. I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please." #Quote by Hayden Panettiere

#140. Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is always a lot of grousing about the academy. I suppose it comes from our all-American anti-authoritarianism. #Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

#141. Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it. #Quote by Gore Vidal

#142. The immortal story of the White Wolf, who may have been a courageous hero or a cruel villain. Depending which version of the story you've heard. #Quote by Marie Lu

#143. If the gods of Gorgeousness and Charm and Sexiness had a threesome, Jason Burkwell would've been the resulting love child. #Quote by Kelly Moran

#144. None of them is a Hollywood style hero. They don't have any super-powers. They can't fly or slay dragons.

But they do defend our right to keep our eyes open.

They're very human humans, having built for themselves inner fortresses with their free spirits, deep reserves of courage, curiosity about the world and a thirst for the truth. #Quote by Christophe Deloire

#145. Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated. #Quote by David Guterson

#146. Human beings divide the world into mine and yours. We create borders. Include what we like and exclude what we do not like. Thus a rift occurs in relationships. Gandhari is jealous of Kunti, Kunti of Madri, Arjuna of Karna, Duryodhana of Bhima. That is why Yayati favors Puru over Yadu. That is why Satyabhama quarrels with Rukmini. But for Shyam, there are no boundaries. No mine and yours. This no hero or villain. No predator or prey. No them or us. He sides with both killer and killed. For him, in wisdom, everyone is family. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. #Quote by Devdutt Pattanaik

#147. In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she. #Quote by Anton Chekhov

#148. He's got more red flags than Soviet Russia. #Quote by Kresley Cole

#149. As his hero and heroine pass the matrimonial barrier, the novelist generally drops the curtain, as if the drama were over then: the doubts and struggles of life ended: as if, once landed in the marriage country, all were green and pleasant there: and wife and husband had nothing to do but to link each other's arms together, and wander gently downwards towards old age in happy and perfect fruition. But our little Amelia was just on the bank of her new country, and was already looking anxiously back towards the sad friendly figures waving farewell to her across the stream, from the other distant shore. #Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

#150. It wasn't fair, but maybe Tommy was right on that score. Maybe a man didn't have no right to ask for fair. Maybe a man made fair for himself. #Quote by Miles Watson

#151. In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver. #Quote by Dean Kamen

#152. Nyx had wanted to be the hero of her own life. Things hadn't turned out that way. Sometimes she thought maybe she could just be the hero of someone else's life, but there was no one who cared enough about her to keep her that close. Hell, there was nobody she'd let that close. No one wanted a hero who couldn't even save herself. #Quote by Kameron Hurley

#153. I'd never get the sound of her screams out of my head, or my heart.
Is this what it meant to be the hero? #Quote by April Genevieve Tucholke

#154. Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go. #Quote by Henry Rollins

#155. He creates a new kind of hero: not warriors, corporate executives, or politicians, but brave and determined activists for preemptive peace, willing to suffer with Him in the prophetic tradition of justice. #Quote by Brian D. McLaren

#156. In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat. #Quote by Geoff Stults

#157. People listen and accept because they have no option. The Super-class rules the world; their arguments are subtle, their voices soft, their smiles discreet, but their decisions are final. They know. They accept or reject. They have the power. And power doesn't negotiate with anyone, only with itself. However, all is not lost. In the world of fiction and in the real world, there is always a hero. #Quote by Paulo Coelho

#158. Paul'd gotten it all wrong. Becoming a cop would not make him a hero- but what kind of cop he became could have. #Quote by Jason Reynolds

#159. The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. - #Quote by Michael Swanwick

#160. To me, she was the center of the universe, the sunlight that burned so bright, but she writes herself in the shadows, secondary in her own life. Instead, she made me the hero, the center of this alternate universe she invented around her. #Quote by J.M. Darhower

#161. The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting. #Quote by Robert Fagles

#162. Joan Rivers was my hero. #Quote by Judy Gold

#163. The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable. #Quote by Barry Hughart

#164. A hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it. #Quote by Romain Rolland

#165. Silena Beauregard
She betrayed them all, thats what it seemed
But she never knew she was.
Luke made a promise, that she was saving lives
She never knew that she wasn't saving,
But killing
Some knew, that something was about to happen
A trick that ends in death
Some may have thought: Foolish Aphrodite girl. But,
In the end she died brave
In the end she showed her treachourous secret
In the end she saw Charlie
In the end she was a hero #Quote by Sherry Vaughn

#166. There's no way I'm facing them on my own."
"Which one are you afraid of? Lord Sol-in-Ar?"
"Cora."
"The Veskan princess?" Kell laughed. "She's just a child."
"She was just a child - and a nightmarish one at that - but I've heard she's grown into something truly fearsome."
Kell shook his head. "Come on, then," he said, slinging his arm around the prince's shoulder. "I'll defend you."
"My hero. #Quote by Victoria Schwab

#167. You're causing the world to spin again, Keirah," Wharick teased about her druid gift with nature. "You out of control? Do you need something to settle you down? he asked. #Quote by Madison Thorne Grey

#168. Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. #Quote by Thomas Carlyle

#169. The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world. #Quote by Helen Gardner

#170. I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him. #Quote by Jack Reynor

#171. The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants. #Quote by Roger Lowenstein

#172. To be a hero, I thought, you had to be beautiful and adored. To be beautiful and adored, you had to be white. That there were millions of Asian girls like me out there in the world, starring in their own dramas large and small, had not yet occurred to me, as I had neither lived nor seen it. #Quote by Nicole Chung

#173. Don't think that writing your character as an untainted paragon of virtue will make them likeable - actually the opposite is true. People are attracted to each other's rough edges. Your readers will relate more with your hero if they show issues that taint their character. #Quote by Jonathan Baldie

#174. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them. #Quote by Brandon Mull

#175. It's because of my grandfather that I became a Young Avenger. But it's hard sometimes, to be a black kid carrying a name like "Patriot". I remember talking to Captain America about before he died, and he explained what Patriotism meant to him...
It wasn't about blindly supporting your government. It was about knowing what your country could be, what it should be... And trying to lead it there through your example. And holding it accountable when it failed. I remember he said: "There's noting patriotic about corruption or cover-ups... or defending them. But exposing them, well, that takes a hero. #Quote by Ed Brubaker

#176. We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. #Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#177. A hero is just somebody who tries to do the right thing even when it's hard.
There are more of us than you think. #Quote by G. Willow Wilson

#178. I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun. #Quote by Bobby Heenan

#179. For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic. #Quote by Xavier Gens

#180. Kallie entered through from the livery yard, to the right of the group. She carried the bantha prod from the Jabe incident, the latest in a series of items she was returning to the tack room in her ongoing effort to see Ben. She saw her dashing hero, all right - standing uneasily, with Veeka perched lasciviously on the counter with a leg on either side of him. #Quote by John Jackson Miller

#181. I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to. #Quote by Angelina Jolie

#182. The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero. #Quote by Chris Brogan

#183. Haters, I'm not your enemy I'm your hero. Cheer up, you should be happy I'm here #Quote by Nicki Minaj

#184. I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies. #Quote by Walter Hill

#185. The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion. #Quote by Noam Chomsky

#186. Wait," Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I'm already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too. #Quote by Emlyn Chand

#187. A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all. #Quote by Raymond E. Feist

#188. Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook. #Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

#189. Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused.
- Hephaestus #Quote by Rick Riordan

#190. Faith isn't about logic, son," Haddek said. "Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot 'disprove' the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us. #Quote by Brandon Sanderson

#191. Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me! #Quote by Philip Zimbardo

#192. I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster. #Quote by Ryan Giggs

#193. Ah," Jamie says. "We have reached the Brooding YA Hero section of the book."
"The first of them,anyway" I say. "I could brood forever. #Quote by Michelle Hodkin

#194. Socrates, the dialectical hero of the Platonic drama, reminds us of the kindred nature of the Euripidean hero who must defend his actions with arguments and counterarguments and in the process often risks the loss of our tragic pity; for who could mistake the optimistic element in the nature of the dialectic, which celebrates a triumph with every conclusion and can breathe only in cool clarity and consciousness. #Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

#195. He rises like a storybook hero out of the darkness - of course, his armor is of leather and ink, rather than chain mail. #Quote by Colleen Masters

#196. A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths #Quote by Daisaku Ikeda

#197. I'm insatiable? I am?" Alessandro asked cocking an eyebrow as he ran his warm hands along the satin material covering her body. "Alessandro. You're alive. I can touch you, look into your eyes and hear your arrogant English voice. We're gonna spend the rest of our lives together, that's plenty romantic for me." Bree pressed her mouth against him. He tasted of coffee and peppermint. He nibbled slightly on her lower lip before pulling away. "Darling, that sounds lovely, but my wedding night fantasy was more along the lines of fucking you into the mattress." Bree smacked his shoulder. "Patience, Dardano. Tonight we take things slow, the mattress fucking will come in time. Now, get on your back and let me put my hands on you and assure myself that you're real." Alessandro sighed but did as she ordered. "Now if you feel anything-" "I certainly hope so or we have a very big problem," Alessandro joked. She smacked his chest. "If you feel any pain you let me know and we'll stop." "Says the woman who's smacked me twice in the past five minutes," Alessandro said, but his eyes were shining with amusement. #Quote by E. Jamie

#198. War! war! war!
Heaven aid the right!
God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!
God send the women sleep in the long, long night,
When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more. #Quote by Edmund Clarence Stedman

#199. The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero. #Quote by Michael Frost

#200. Time often sheds light on curious circumstances.
Something we thought was a crazy miscalculation may, in fact, turn out to be the key component to the winning play. #Quote by Jaime Buckley