Anne Holm Quotes
Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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When sorrow is deepest...then the surface crust is pierced, and consolation wells up, and all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.
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We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.
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Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.
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I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
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Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.
