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Tag Name "Heroes" (822)

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The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.
Joseph Campbell
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall
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Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
Will Carleton
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Will Rogers
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Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
Alex Tabarrok
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Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.
Anna Quindlen
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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
Tom Brokaw
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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.
William Hurt
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One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.
Frank Gehry
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So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
Alan Seeger
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The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.
George Will
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I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
William Shatner
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Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.
William Shatner
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
Akira Kurosawa
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Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.
Willie Nelson
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Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
Willie Stargell
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God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson Mizner
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To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Samuel Johnson
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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
Winston Churchill
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You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes
Warren Buffett
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My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.
Aeriel Miranda
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