Unlikeliest Hero Quotes & Sayings

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through ... — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience. — Joyce Giraud

Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life. — Linda Rawson

Well, until man is redeemed he will always take a fly rod too far back, just as natural man always overswings with an ax or golf club and loses all his power somewhere in the air; only with a rod it's worse, because the fly often comes so far back it gets caught behind in a bush or rock. — Norman Maclean

The way Karma Ura sees it, a government is like a pilot guiding an airplane. In bad weather, it must rely on its instruments to navigate. But what if the instruments are faulty? The plane will certainly veer off course, even though the pilot is manipulating the controls properly. That, he says, is the state of the world today, with its dependence on gross national product as the only real measure of a nation's progress. "Take education," he says. "We are hooked on measuring enrollment, but we don't look at the content. Or consider a nation like Japan. People live a long time, but what is the quality of their life past age sixty?" He has a point. We measure what is easiest to measure, not what really matters to most people's lives - a disparity that Gross National Happiness seeks to correct. — Eric Weiner

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. — Charles Spurgeon

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Subordinate of H. Himmler, may have played role in Himmler's not yet fully explained death in 1948. — Philip K. Dick

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. — William Shakespeare

Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. — John Green

Unlike her, he came from a good family. A prechopped pepper kind of family. — Tessa Bailey

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. — S.E. Hinton

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things. — Lena Dunham

What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it.

No matter how many teachings that you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma. — Patrul Rinpoche