#brave

The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place that wished to be deceived, and, to this end, he had named himself from a lie in a fairy tale, and created himself--his clothes, his manner, his carriage--as a grand joke. There was a dull pain in his wrists and his feet, and he was finding it harder and harder to breathe. There was nothing more to be gained by feigning unconsciousness, and he raised his head, as best he could, and spat a gob of scarlet blood into Mr. Vandemar's face. It was a brave thing to do, he thought. And a stupid one. Perhaps they would have let him die quietly, if he had not done that. Now, he had no doubt, they would hurt him more. And perhaps his death would come the quicker for it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#lady-door #marquis-de-carabas #neil-gaiman #neverwhere #death

No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you. ↗

— Toba Beta

#certainty #define #definition #future #guts

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ↗

— Harper Lee

#been #bravest #ever #father #guns

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#battlefield #be brave #brave #champagne #cowards

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#anyway #being #being afraid #brave #course

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

I don't know if I'm brave. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#i #know

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?' ↗

— Lady Gaga

#bravery #bullied #courage #fact #i

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#better #bravery #changed #civil #civil rights

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#bring #conviction #enemy #find #fire