#heroes

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#beings #courage #gain #great #great qualities

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#first #flight #forgotten #heroes #never

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#braver #else #five #heroes #just

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply. ↗

— David Remnick

#apply #better #could #faster #good

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#become #called #could #had #heroes

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

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

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