Quotes About Real Life Heroes

#1. I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting ... " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

David Hasselhoff

#2. Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

Andy Biersack

#3. That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

Thomas Hardy

#4. Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.

Kat Kruger

#5. I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life

Gustave Flaubert

#6. Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.

Jim Lehrer

#7. I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow

Simone Elkeles

#8. The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Charles James Fox

#9. This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life.

Christian Tetzlaff

#10. Our outer world reflects our inner commitments. If we want to know what we are really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives. We are, whether we are aware of it or not, always creating exactly what we are most committed to.

Nancy Levin

#11. Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Matthew McConaughey

#12. Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Michael Moorcock

#13. The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.

Nikki Rowe

#14. In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

John Rhys-Davies

#15. In all kinds of composition, there are two things necessary: first, to have something to say; second, to say it.

J. Willis Westlake

#16. We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.

Russ Thorne

#17. Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.

Bobby Farrelly

#18. I'm tired of good people getting ripped off by diet products that don't work!

Bob Harper

#19. There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

J.B. Priestley

#21. You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

Eddie Levert

#22. He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.

Laila Lalami

#23. Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

Wilbur Smith

#24. In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

Ludwig Von Mises

#25. If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

Lennie James

#26. A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

Jim Caviezel

#27. The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.

Bono

#28. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

#29. A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Colin Cotterill

#30. In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

Sarah MacLean

#31. I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#32. I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

Garth Nix

#33. Now, I don't want to come over all cynical, but doesn't that imply that you could dispense with the entire democratic process and simply award power to the party with the most money in its campaign fund? Yes. It does. Maybe not always, just every, single time in history so far.

Russell Brand

#34. But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

J.R.R. Tolkien