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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

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• I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Failure

• 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.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Men
  • Father
  • Son

• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • System
  • Finding

• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • You
  • Church
  • New

• 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.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Friends
  • House
  • Marriage

• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Hero

• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Men
  • American
  • Death

• I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • She
  • Brave

• Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Men
  • Gold

• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Man
  • Brave
  • Coward

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Brave

• Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Perfect
  • Brave
  • Grit

• Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Brave

• Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Intelligent

• The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Women
  • Love
  • Book

• Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Night

• We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Ideas

• One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • World
  • Enemy
  • Brave

• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Happiness
  • Brief

• I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Tea

• My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• He's not quite blue yet, but that will come, you shall see! … Take him off quick to your little girl...

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Girl
  • Blue

• The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

  

  Livy
  • Brave