"To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs."

-- Grete Waitz

#Hero Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”
“In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.”

Source : Michael Palmer (2007). “The Fifth Vial”, p.34, Macmillan
“I've always wanted to get my share but, due to my tendency to overcompensate (work harder, push for the win more), I've ended up with more than my fair share. These are some of the life lessons I've drawn from watching my mother and grandfather struggle in the world compared to my own struggles.”
“Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.”

Source : Marshall William Fishwick (1969). “The hero, American style”
“Every month brings pleasure bright If the heart is only right.”
“We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.”
“To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable! The fact that a small clique of attorneys in the Department of Justice can write how can we get around the Geneva Conventions so that we can torture during interrogations - I can't even get their mentally. And when you read their briefs, they didn't get there mentally.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“See with eyes unclouded by hate.”

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