#hero

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes. ↗

— Brian Moore

#individuals #made #up #want #who

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference. ↗

— Marc Morial

#contribution #difference #equality #freedom #greatest

The simple act of caring is heroic. ↗

— Edward Albert

#caring #heroic #simple #simple act

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#idea #play #succeed #who #women

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#heroic #minds #stepping #stones #success

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#conservatism #glorious #orthodoxy #our #pit

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#descended #freud #head #hero #him

In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#bunch #came #expected #guys #hero

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#bush #come #hero #probably #think

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract