Quotes of: Brave-men Keyword

You mean we won't get to run through burning buildings?" I could see he wanted to laugh, but instead he watched me intently. "What? Why are you staring at me?" "I'm not staring. I'm observing." I smiled through my tears. "And what do you observe?" He...

Cleopatra's Daughter

On the right side-panel of the verbose and somewhat tautological box of Cheerios, it is written, If you are not satisfied with the quality and/or performance of the Cheerios in this box, send name, address, and reason for dissatisfaction—along with...

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody. He was. He was going to sh...

Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories

Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside and soft and white inside, buttered greens I did not recognize, although I think now that they might have been nettles, toasted carrots all blackened an...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and...

Rebecca

I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was...

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hand in this, as well as friends. Still, I was bent, and my laughter, as the poet said, was nowhere to be found. Then said my fr...

Mary Oliver

I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne ve...

C. JoyBell C.

[last lines] King Arthur: [Arthur and Bedevere have found out that the Holy Grail is in Castle Augh, which is guarded by the frenchmen] We shall attack at once. Sir Bedevere: Yes, my liege. [an army of hundreds of soldiers appears] King Arthur: [to C...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Village Boy 2: We're ashamed to live here. Our fathers are cowards. O'Reilly: Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they ...

The Magnificent Seven

Westley: Where am I? The Albino: [raspy voice] The Pit of Despair! Don't even think... [clears throat] The Albino: ... don't even think about trying to escape. The chains are far too thick. Don't dream of being rescued, either; the only way in is sec...

The Princess Bride

When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they are so similar. You’ll discover ...

Vironika Tugaleva

You intend to keep me confined in here with you for three days?" His voice was low and ominous. "It doesn't have to take three days," she said, "It just depends how long it takes for you to come to your senses." "My senses?" he shook her so hard she ...

Victoria Vane

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

The Cost of Discipleship

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Civil Disobedience

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

Cat's Eye

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Collected Essays

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The Children of Men