Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

Gideon Welles

This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.

Carl Sagan

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Harry Reid

The American people and our brave troops deserve better than a photo-op for the president and a pep-rally about Iraq. They deserve a plan. Unfortunately, today's event only served to highlight the fact that the president refuses to engage in a frank conversation about the realities on the ground,

Gwen Stefani

That was the first time we'd worked outside the group with songwriters, and it was really awkward. That's what defines us as a band, writing, so it was a brave and crazy experiment, It was uncomfortable in the studio, but Hella Good has become one of our staple songs,

Stella Young

I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.

Tom Baker

Valor never dies as long as brave souls, willingly give their lives for our freedom. Some may take this sacrifice for granted, while parents of these soldiers pray for the safety of their children. These young men and women who protect our great country in battlefields throughout the world fight for our freedom. We must pray for their safe return, and give honor to those who have fallen.

Preston Sturges

I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character.

Michael was a strong, brave man who went through a lot of battles.

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend

Arthur Clough

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, / Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

Aesop

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

James Russell Lowell

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

The president ... fails to understand the limited role the US military should play in Iraq's long-term political and economic reconstruction efforts. Our brave servicemen and women won a resounding victory in the military operation, and their task is largely over.

I was trying to be brave on that one. It was a simple 6-yard out and was trying to take what I could get.

Tom Daschle

We are awed by their sacrifice and their bravery, and we want them and their families to know that they have the profound respect and gratitude of every American,

Franco Frattini

which has worked hard to reach this goal, feels even more the moral duty to support the brave Iraqi government in its efforts for democracy, security and for the social and economic reconstruction of the country.

Sam Endicott

We're called The Bravery because that's the mindset I was in when I was writing the songs,

William Shakespeare

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

Abraham Lincoln

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Sidney Lumet

There is a kind of crazy bravery about this guy.

has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

He was too brave for his own good,

He's confident he will still be playing at a high level then. The Braves made a good effort and the Cubs did too. He turned down longer terms from other teams. We probably could have gotten close to this much money and twice as many years. But this was the right thing and the right team.

Dan Rather

He had the looks of a leading man, ... He was a scholar and correspondent and he had the bravery of a knight.

He is a brave man ... very shrewd, an excellent tactician ... smart, knowledgeable, experienced.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Chita Rivera

I don't know what Texas is all about. We kinda make jokes about it, like being run out of town. But we're brave enough to face it.

James Harvey Robinson

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Sheila Frazier

Foster children are brave little children, ... They don't know me, my husband or son. They are going into a strange environment. Most adults would be scared to death, but we expect them to be fine.