Brave Quotes

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
Barbara Kingsolver

Time, Reality, Here

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Beauty, Women, Children

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
Dave Grohl

God, Home, America

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
Charles Schumer

Mistakes, Made, Enough

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
Jim Gerlach

Nation, Tyranny, Break

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Stockwell Day

Government, Society, Legal

Fortune favors the brave.
Terence

Fortune, Favors

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges Bernanos

Fear, Face, Dread

People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
Carl Hiaasen

Mean, Sometimes, Write

When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
Luther Martin

Around, Truly, Stands

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder

Health, Home, War

Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does.
Virginia Madsen

Men, Bit, Shining

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.
Wade Davis

Perfect, Courageous, Determined

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
Frances Rodman

Faith, Hope, Strength

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
David Mitchell

Dad, Past, Become

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
Philip Pullman

Love, Men, Beautiful

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
Terry Eagleton

Work, Rest, Original

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells

Men, Single, Cannot

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
Dan Lipinski

Women, Men, Through

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
Dan Lipinski

Peace, Women, Men

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.
Amanda Holden

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.
Jet Li

Girl, Through, Action

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
Ella Maillart

Time, Down, Risk

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
Bill Skarsgard

Good, Mind, True

For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy.
Cory Booker

Home, Words, Why

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
Philip Green

View, Educated, Careful

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
Carlos Fuentes

Women, Young, Both

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
Louise Brown

Book, Her, Sure

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?
Elisha Cuthbert

Women, Play, Wrong

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
Kenny Loggins

Life, Road, Passage

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