Reluctant Hero Quotes

#1. Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero.

Josh Rose

#2. Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

Margot Livesey

#3. The reluctant hero is always fun to play.

David Giuntoli

#4. Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth
of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who
shall we follow next? Who shall we kill
next time?

William Stafford

#5. 'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

Annalee Newitz

#6. When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?

Zach Braff

#7. The best things in this world are meant to be fought for." -Kearney

Brittany L. Engels

#8. I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

Wanda Sykes

#9. Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Lord Dunsany

#10. The greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.

Lights

#12. The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.

Santosh Kalwar

#13. When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.

Robert Greene

#14. I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.

Rebecca Solnit

#16. Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

Antoine Fuqua

#17. Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

Marcus Samuelsson

#18. My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

James Altucher

#19. I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

Jane Green

#20. Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

#21. Resigning herself to that, Denise was doing her own

Nicholas Sparks