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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure.


Aldous Huxley

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ALDOUS HUXLEY What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the so...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Now they have a riddle.

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DEYTH BANGER 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 The English (I cannot speak of the Scots) are moralistic, and have made moralizing their discipline ...
HOWARD BARKER I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have the...
GARY LINEKER I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and...
TAYLOR SWIFT It really establishes the fact that there were no one or two heroes on Flight 93. There were 40 peop...
GORDON FELT What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS A world without heroes is just an empty world! A world without heroes is just a world without great ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO A hero takes steps with the vision of bringing what is beyond the eyes of mere men into reality for ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they hav...
PAULO COELHO Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the ...
ZHANG YIMOU You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
C. D. ANDREWS As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO It is time for all the heroes to go homeif they have any, time for all of us common onesto locate ou...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Life is like a pitcher, you can only get out of it what you put into it, and I have put all I had in...
BOBBY W. MILLER Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture, so I think we're actually utilizing comi...
MIKE COLTER Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with gun...
ROGER MOORE I hope they look like heroes and not zeroes and have the lake open on time for this season.
BOB JACKSON Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.
PETER MCWILLIAMS Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they ke...
CASSANDRA CLARE What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so...
FRANK MILLER Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought no...
GEORGE FOREMAN To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to ...
RICK RIORDAN What you read, and what you have watched and what you have listened is just the few from all... You ...
DEYTH BANGER Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They a...
EDWARD ABBEY I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and ...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are her...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The mental and physical reactions to what are perceived as labor and leisure are distinctively diffe...
JONATHAN CHEN We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, m...
THOMAS MERTON Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb.
PERICLES My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the othe...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney....
JIM BROWN I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem...
HOLLIS STACY Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.
ROBERT JORDAN I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedic...
JOHN CENA All three have been unsung heroes.
GEOFFREY KORPER It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN There will always be someone better looking; better off; smarter; richer; thinner; taller; shorter; ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, m...
THOMAS MERTON It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; s...
ROB LOWE You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY It was a gift. They're really community heroes. And they're all musicians and have a love of music a...
JANE HAMILTON Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, b...
SUGATA MITRA They were all buried in different graves and now they're together with their buddies. They're my her...
CLIFF REED Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a littl...
DUKE ELLINGTON Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a l...
DUKE ELLINGTON Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe...
ANTONIN ARTAUD My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?
GRACE DRAVEN You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be hero...
WALTER SCHIRRA SR. You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be hero...
WALTER M. SCHIRRA SR. You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be hero...
WALTER M. SCHIRRA, SR. You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to...
GREG BERLANTI I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world bet...
SYLVIA EARLE They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
MARION BARRY What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create thei...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly countr...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
DEYTH BANGER It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't hav...
DEYTH BANGER The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotte...
JIM RAMSTAD When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...
MAHATMA GANDHI To one degree or another we all fight against preconceptions nearly every day. The wisest people I k...
DENNIS SHARPE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, wh...
GEORGE SAINTSBURY All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.
JO NESBO Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons it...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Scholars spend all of their energies on saying Yes and No, on criticism of what others have thought ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You can't deal with being odd?
...

Become like them...

Become drug delear...
DEYTH BANGER People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what the...
ERIC DAVIS They wanted to serve their country, become heroes, see the world. But they were expendable, discarde...
MARK PIOTROWSKI Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really ...
MONTE IRVIN There is no driver in the sport who carries the size of stick that Dale Earnhardt carried. Every spo...
MARK MARTIN No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants ...
MAHATMA GANDHI People don't have fun making music all the time.
KEN HILL Heroes don't always have capes, badges or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.
ANDREA RANDALL That's the second time Den and Andy have saved the day for us as they did exactly the same on the Ro...
TONY JARDINE They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.
ANONYMOUS They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes
GEORGE LUCAS Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-image...
RITA RUDNER I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are so...
KEVIN BACON I think we can knock them off their pedestal. I think we can do them but, more importantly, the team...
BOB MORTON To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back u...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they'...
HELEN THOMAS Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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