Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
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Related Heroes take journey for ordinary to extraordinary and their legacy is the memory of a great name. Th... LILY CHATTERJEE Miners could afford to own one of these. They were little; they were made by village painters, and t... MARTHA J. EGAN It really establishes the fact that there were no one or two heroes on Flight 93. There were 40 peop... GORDON FELT Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Bottom line? As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in cont... J.R. WARD Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was kno... MARGO JEFFERSON Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. CHRIS HEMSWORTH Everybody could see they were civilians and peasants in their carts, ... They were intentionally tar... SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC They were everywhere. They were in the basements of buildings, churches, office buildings and people... EDWARD REYNOLDS 'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, yo... MICHAEL PATRICK KING Heroes don't always have capes, badges or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do. ANDREA RANDALL She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies ... J.D. SALINGER Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; ... ALYSSA SUTHERLAND By the time they were juniors and seniors, they knew exactly what they were going to do before they ... CHARLIE THOMPSON The guys did a good job of being just tough. They were kind of upset with themselves that they didn'... BILL POTOCZNY They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI They were all buried in different graves and now they're together with their buddies. They're my her... CLIFF REED We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn... A.W. TOZER My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forwa... JOHN HUGHES They are heroes because they protect us, you know? They go in where people are in danger, and they s... DAVID BLANKENHORN There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, ... JAMES CAMERON It was a relief for someone to explain what was wrong, what had happened. No one else, none of those... CATHERINE LACEY They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star... DEYTH BANGER I was a victim of violence... No reason for vileonce just few sucirity guards came... we were 3... t... DEYTH BANGER Actually, it is an extremely stiff penalty for someone who's children were not injured. Their decisi... DARA CASHMAN People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest ... CAREY MULLIGAN And everyone, everyone ? everyone ? knew what they were. They knew someone had drowned there. Even t... JOHN CLARK They were from two different worlds. Two entirely different people. But upon their coming together, ... C. JOYBELL C. Even if it was just a water balloon, even if they didn't realize how much damage they were doing, th... BETH MARTIN The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were ... J.M. BARRIE People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because t... MAGGIE SMITH You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happene... J.R. WARD I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eag... TRACY K. SMITH Our forefathers were heroes. But why were they heroes? Because they fought for democracy. They fough... YANAN MELO But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the g... JANET FITCH My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats,... DEREK LANDY Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people wo... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I’ll always be broken,” I went on. “Because when I came here, no one fixed me. It’s not that... TABITHA FREEMAN They were that strong and amazing. They could carry up to 55 pounds on their heads. We were absolute... MERLIN LAHM A hero takes steps with the vision of bringing what is beyond the eyes of mere men into reality for ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are.... GRAEME SIMSION If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or gettin... CAITLIN DOUGHTY Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone. PATRICIA BRIGGS We didn't double team her because we wanted to make sure they didn't beat us with their guards, who ... ROY BACKUS The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on... MAHERSHALA ALI My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w... JAMES D. WATSON A world without heroes is just an empty world! A world without heroes is just a world without great ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even kill... JUDITH SPENCER It's interesting when you know people on a number of levels. I knew Josie and George as patients of ... MIKE FISCHER I think the most important thing that happened to us the whole time we were here was more recent ... JANETTE LOW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES They wanted to serve their country, become heroes, see the world. But they were expendable, discarde... MARK PIOTROWSKI We knew we could pressure their guards out front. We were just quicker than they were and we took ad... MIKE SHOWALTER We saw that even in the second quarter they were holding on to their shorts. We knew that we could u... DAVE HUBER Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one pers... ANDY WARHOL Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover LAMENNAIS There were some kind white people out there who provided a loan here or there, or a little bit of la... ED SMITH Their faces said that they were affected by what they saw. They understood not only how only the bui... DAVE WISE People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to... DEAN KOONTZ There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, midd... ELIZABETH STROUT They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my ... RANATA SUZUKI I issued an open invitation to anybody who believes their analytical product was skewed in any way, ... PAT ROBERTS When you really connect to someone, you can crack their soul of stone and see through them as though... SARA STRAIN Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pat... JIMMY IOVINE As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard t... BUZZ ALDRIN They were so proud of their actions that they showed off their blood-splattered shoes they were wear... DAWN ANDERSON Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatc... MONICA CROWLEY I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back... CHELSEA PERETTI The groups in different areas that were affiliated with us knew one thing for sure, and that is that... DREXEL DEAL If you read fairy tales carefully, you’ll notice they are mostly about people who aren’t heroes.... AMANDA CRAIG I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because 'thank you' is not enough... . As far a... LYNN DOOLEY She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear... ELIZABETH GEORGE A hero is someone who is sacrifice her or his life to
Protect us from evil terrorist
While we, ordin... PALITHA ARIYARATHNA Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided... BIBLE They played well especially passing the ball. They knew where their players were at and could get th... MIKE GURNEY They kept a suitcase in the trunk of their car so if they decided to go they could go. Half the time... BARBARA CRASS Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they... CRAIG MCCRACKEN It takes a certain kind of person to be willing to knowingly jeopardize their own life to help someo... DON REED A lot of people will try and never stick with it long enough. Most people could ride a unicycle if t... BARRY HOTRUM If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would ... RACHEL VAN DYKEN If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they... BARBARA EHRENREICH You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at yo... MARILYNNE ROBINSON We were intimidated by all that height. Everyone they had on their starting unit was at least as tal... BENNY HARRIS So maybe someone listening will be inspired to pick up a Bible or go to church and their lives will ... BETHANY HAMILTON We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the o... JOHN FRANCESCHI There were three games this year that we were down and came back to win. They knew coming into this ... ANDY BOROWSKY As long as they had some kind of ball in their hand or watching some sporting event on television, t... SHARON HODGES Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous mer... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. ... CASSANDRA CLARE They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he wa... LOIS LOWRY They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were infinite. They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity. The king standing be... SARAH J. MAAS They loved each other enough that they wanted the other one to play as well as they could, then they... GENE BESS There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both ... MORRIE SCHWARTZ Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to ... A.E. SAMAAN Most of them knew that they probably didn't have a house to go home to. And they were taking care of... BARBARA FOLK
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JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. JODI PICOULT The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ... JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ... JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru... JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin... JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m... JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it... JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ... 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JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT