Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. – Donald Trump At Mount Rushmore July 3, pre-July 4 holiday event holiday.
You’re doing a good job Don’t get too down The world needs you now Know that you matter, matter, matter, yeah. – Alicia Keys Her new song, Good Job, dedicated to the everyday heroes of the coronavirus pandemic.
Look at the real heroes who come to light in these days: they are not famous, rich and successful people; rather they are those who are giving themselves in order to serve others. – Pope Francis Pontiff’s 2020 Palm Sunday homily was a call to serve others, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 1. During his beatings and torture Winston comes to realize that physical pain is the worst thing in the world and is unbearable.
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. – Gerald W. Johnson
My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves. – Haruki Murakami
In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So ‘Suicide Squad’ is just like, wow, so damn awesome. – Harley Quinn Smith
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. – Henrik Ibsen
You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows. – Greg Berlanti
We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. – Henry Rollins
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. – Jean Genet
Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we’re all heroes of our own lives. – Jesse Eisenberg
My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They’re all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They’re just great actors. – Jonah Hill
One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you’re not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling. – Ira Sachs
All these corporations don’t want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can’t say what you think. You’re basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don’t allow personalities? – Jacques Villeneuve
All of the stunt men – these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They’re risking their necks. – Jason Statham
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it. – Jeff Ross
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play ‘The Crucible’ analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials. – Jane Smiley
I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players – and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. – Joel Edgerton
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. – John Oliver
My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles – who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century – and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything! – J. D. Souther
Back in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero. – Jim Lee