"I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic."
— George Carlin

"First find out what your hero wants. Then just follow him."
— Ray Bradbury

"Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”…"
— Rhett, Knight’s Fork by Rowena Cherry

"You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.
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— Mr. Fantastic Fiction (by Libba Bray)

"A hero is someone that can see death everyday, and still have hope for the world."
— Annoymous

""The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.” "
— Frank Miller

"Life isn't just to be endured, it's to be enjoyed."
— Gordon B.Hinckley

"You don't have to have superpowers to be a hero"
— Hiro

"In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

"I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments."
— P.G. Wodehouse (Love Among the Chickens)

"Sometimes heros have to die. The greatest hero of all time died. The beautiful thing is though, heros never stay dead."
— Michael Stracener

"A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Every society needs heroes. And every society has them. The reason we don't often see them is because we don't bother to look.

There are two kinds of heroes. Heroes who shine in the face of great adversity, who perform an amazing feat in a difficult situation. And heroes who live among us, who do their work unceremoniously, unnoticed by many of us, but who make a difference in the lives of others.

Heroes are selfless people who perform extraordinary acts. The mark of heroes is not necessarily the result of their action, but what they are willing to do for others and for their chosen cause. Even if they fail, their determination lives on for others to follow. The glory lies not in the achievement, but in the sacrifice. "
— Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see youself become the villain"
— Harvey Dent Dark Knight

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~ Abraham Lincoln "
— — Abraham Lincoln

"No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk."
— Herbert Spencer (Herbert Spencer: An Autobiography)

"By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction."
— Asti Hustvedt (The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France)

"Grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation."
— Norman Mailer

"That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."
— Lise Hand

"The public loves to create a hero....Somtimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick."
— Grace Metalious (Return to Peyton Place)

"But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be."
— Perry Moore

"Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are."
— Perry Moore

"Jihaaaaaaad!"
— Osama Binladen

"Never again allow me to say that medical science is on the verge of conquering disease."
— Victor Vaughn

"Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world."
— Montague Brown

"I think I tend to be drawn to, a lot of the stories have really strong family elements. I'm really drawn to that element of it. I think that's one of the biggest hooks of the show for me, is like, what do these powers do to the relationships in everybody's lives? I really feel like the dynamic in the Bennett family is really compelling and really complicated."
— Zachary Quinto