Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Courage
  • Tolerance
  • Test

• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Man
  • Literature

• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Nice

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Know
  • Courage
  • Acting

• People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Kind
  • Adversity

• I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • World
  • Adversity
  • Overcoming

• Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• Being here: in a particular time and place. That is the existential position with particular implications for literature.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Literature

• But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• We are, even now, killing ourselves over ancient literature. Who would have thought something so tragically absurd could be possible?

  

  Sam Harris
  • Literature

• Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • School
  • Literature

• I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Literature

• You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly, you have to be able to stand up in front of people and know that they'll laugh.

  

  Don Rickles
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Suffering
  • Courage
  • Discipline

• I love building companies; I love making products.

  

  Jennifer Flavin

• 'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,-the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.

  

  John Webster
  • Fear
  • Summer
  • Garden

• Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

  

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