Lord Byron Quotes, Hero Quotes, Writing Quotes

What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mother Quotes , Hero Quotes

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

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It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

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The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

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Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

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There is no true orator who is not a hero.

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Hero Quotes , Mind Quotes

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Hero Quotes , People Quotes