#hero

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#contract #gold #gold medal #heroes #medal

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#heroes #our #ourselves #own #rescue

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#fiction #generally #goes #heroines #heros

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #hero #hopes #reality #symbol

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#another way #care #create #problems #really

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ↗

— Will Rogers

#because #curb #go #heroes #sit

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die. ↗

— Will Rogers

#being #die #hero #know #main

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#billy graham #christ #christianity #comfortable #complacent

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#back #britain #camp #exists #going

She didn't understand that. "How can anyone be afraid of love?" "How can they not?" His face was completely aghast. "When you love someone... truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt—you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling—like having your heart carved out. It leaves you naked and exposed, wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them. What is so wrong with you that no one can keep faith with you? That no one can love you? To have it happen once is bad enough... but to have it repeated? Who in their right mind would not be terrified of that? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#ash #kat #katra #love #faith