Brad Meltzer Quotes

No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We're all kind and brave, soft and hard, sciency and artsy, interested in being looked at and in admiring others' physical form. Everything.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

Turing was very strong and driven and, at the same, so awkward and fragile.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.