#heroes

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups

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

— Cathy Rigby

#contract #gold #gold medal #heroes #medal

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ↗

— Maya Angelou

#heroes #how #important #our #recognize

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#heroes #households #made #nation

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#accessible #action #action film #action films #better

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. ↗

— Robert Shea

#destroyed #element #greatest #greatest strength #heroes

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#could #heroes #himself #honest #i

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#hang #heroes #i #long #out

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#grow #heroes #i #like #now

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. ↗

— John Strachan

#back #brought #christianity #compare #contemplate