Heroes And Monsters Quotes

#1. WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.

Edward Bond

#2. High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

Paul Hersey

#3. Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer's most ancient task.

David Burr Gerrard

#4. But such monsters as sphinxes bring forth the necessary heroes to defeat them, and because such heroes make civilization by the example of monster-taming, without the former there would be no civilization at all.

David D. Gilmore

#5. I dont understand, but understanding something isnt a prerequisite to feeling it. We dont have to understand things in order to be affected by them.

Josh James Riebock

#6. Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Margaret Atwood

#7. A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

Andre Siegfried

#8. Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

Rick Riordan

#9. With Anna gone, we listen for footfalls, each of us avoiding the other with an intense concentration. Occasionally we cross paths by accident, our bubbles of personal space like a Venn diagram, becoming darker where they overlap.
Dad left.
Anna is gone.
I have never been here.

Mindy McGinnis

#10. You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster.

Adhish Mazumder

#11. Giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

Jack Kemp

#12. Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Joseph Addison

#13. We can't let the next generation grow up without heroes. Some of us have to fight on!

Avijeet Das

#14. There are monsters among us, it's true. But there are heroes too.

Amie Kaufman

#15. Wherever we find monsters, there, too, we also find heroes.

Stephen T. Asma

#16. Fireheart - do you know how much you sound like Bluestar?

Erin Hunter

#17. Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

#18. Monsters are eternal," she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing. "We will remember you and Damasen as heroes, as the best Titan and the best giant. We'll tell our children. We'll keep the story alive. Someday, you will regenerate.

Rick Riordan

#19. I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

Alfred De Vigny

#20. We were king's men, knights, and heroes ... but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all."
"Are you saying you are monsters?"
"I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne

George R R Martin

#21. You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

Joan Bauer

#22. It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Northrop Frye

#23. An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [ ... ] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

George R R Martin

#24. Surrender means seeing that "I am not separate" - just SEEING that "I am not separate." Nothing is surrendered, nothing is dropped; just a nonsense idea, a dream is no more there because you are awake.

Rajneesh

#25. I suppose we all hit a point when no one has to describe fear & confusion for us anymore, a point when life carves it into us.

Josh James Riebock

#26. If he'd had to judge based on the two of them, then ExtraOrdinaries were damaged, to say the least. But these words people threw around
humans, monsters, heroes, villains
to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics.

Victoria Schwab

#27. Everything that gets born dies.

Morrie Schwartz.

#28. My sister has an incredible body. I feel sorry for anyone who would judge her, because she's one sexy lady ... It's disgusting that people would say those things.

Ashlee Simpson

#29. He knows how to make me laugh & sometimes there's no better way to love someone than that.

Josh James Riebock

#30. There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

George R R Martin

#31. Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

Josh James Riebock

#32. But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.

George R R Martin

#33. People unite against things. People fight when they're scared and threatened, not to change, not for the future. They get it wrong in the other Tales. People don't fight for heroes: they fight for the monsters. For fear of the monsters in the dark.

Leah Bobet

#34. In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.

Bill Henson

#35. Sometimes, the monsters are terribly beautiful, and the heroes loathsome.

Yasmine Galenorn

#36. Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

Brigitte Bardot

#37. Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#38. We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.
~Lew Fonesca

Stuart M. Kaminsky

#39. Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, "Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters."
More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.

Rick Riordan

#40. There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

Joe Hill

#41. The men who killed your monsters weren't heroes. They were even more frightening.

Lisa Henry

#42. Knowledge and belief are sometimes worlds apart.

Josh James Riebock

#43. Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don't want to thrive on people's opinions of me.

Lupita Nyong'o

#44. I want love without drama, romance without pain. I want intimacy without vulnerability. I want a guarantee. I want something that doesnt exist. Maybe we all do. Maybe we're all chasing unicorns.

Josh James Riebock