courage

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot"

"She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold."

"Emil showed me that he was able to call the birds to him and direct their flight while they were in the air; that the flowers and trees would nod to him; that the wild animals would come to him fearle…"

"Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me."

"I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the mee…"

"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be…"

"The story I would like to tell, I thought then, is the story of the men who lie here. Nothing can blur my memory of their tenacity and devotion to duty, of their refusal to be awed by seemingly insurm…"

"I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!"

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

"We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible wi…"

"The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core."

"Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative . For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see whe…"

"I see weeds and flowers. I think of it in those terms, and we have to discriminate and distinguish between the two, to recognize and encourage those human qualities and attributes that are the more po…"

"The guy's a war hero. He's not a coward like George Bush. He didn't duck into a Champagne unit in the Texas Air National Guard and disappear like George Bush."

"A bold general may be lucky, but no general can be lucky unless he is bold.  The general who allows himself to be bound and hampered by regulations is unlikely to win a battle."

"The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego."

"The people of South Dakota are taking the lead in the preparation of this memorial out of their meager resources, because the American spirit is strong among them. Their effort and courage entitles th…"

"Man abhors the absence of integration. He demands integration, and will create religions, achieve heroic self-sacrifice, pursue mad ambitions, or follow the ecstasy of danger, rather than live without…"

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

"Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action."