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courage cutting fire
Charles Caleb Colton Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.
courage prayer voice
Charles Stanley When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
courage people quality
David Hume Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.
courage fighting democracy
Benazir Bhutto The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated...Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
courage dark journey
Bear Grylls There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
courage dog fighting
August Strindberg I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
courage ambition careers
Audrey Hepburn My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.
courage gay white
Antony Sher As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
humor envy praise
Charles Caleb Colton Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
humorous eye men
Charles Dickens There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.
humor shields darts
Charles Simmons Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
humor want goes-on
Alan Watts The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
humor comedian realizing
Alan Moore Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
humorous america chinese
David Riesman America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
humor experts sense-of-humor
Ben Stiller I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
humor cat world
Gina Barreca The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.
humor dying records
Bill Murray Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
greatness men mind
Charles Caleb Colton Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Charles Caleb Colton Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
Charles Caleb Colton In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Charles Caleb Colton Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
greatness excellence littles
Charles Simmons True greatness consists in being great in little things.
greatness shy enough
Chris Colfer You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough
greatness men yams
Chinua Achebe You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.
greatness where-you-are depends
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
greatness serious scene
Edward Gibbon [The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.