{"topic":"heroes","quotes":[{"quote":"The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.","author":"Benjamin Disraeli"},{"quote":"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.","author":"Bette Davis"},{"quote":"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.","author":"Bob Dylan"},{"quote":"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.","author":"John Barth"},{"quote":"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"},{"quote":"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"},{"quote":"Every hero becomes a bore at last.","author":"Randy K. Milholland"},{"quote":"Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.","author":"Umberto Eco"},{"quote":"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.","author":"Warren G. Harding"},{"quote":"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.","author":"Will Rogers"},{"quote":"Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.","author":"Will Rogers"},{"quote":"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."}]}