Eoin Colfer Quotes

I killed one man to save 100,000.

It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.

It takes lives to save lives.