The law has no power over heroes.
Charlotte Lennox

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

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
Ira Hayes

The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
Wilferd A. Peterson

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.
Jim Walsh

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
Ken Kesey

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
Graham Greene

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller

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

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
Naguib Mahfouz

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Nina Simone

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Laura Dern

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Michael N. Castle

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Henrik Ibsen

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Silvia Cartwright

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Daniel J. Boorstin