I don’t know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else. – Richard Armitage
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. – Robert Green Ingersoll
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn’t he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts. – Robert E. Sherwood
I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers. – Roald Dahl
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that’s one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave. – Robbie Coltrane
To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough. – Rupert Everett
When I see films like ‘Lagaan’ and ‘Rang De Basanti,’ I feel, ‘Why can’t I do work like this?’ Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave. – Rohit Shetty
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Life’s the adventure. You don’t have to drop your bundle and go bush. It’s about being brave within the context that you’re in. – Robyn Davidson
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig. – Philip Emeagwali
I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out. – Peter Garrett
I’d like to think that I’m brave. That’s a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I’m the type of person to go rescue someone. – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first. – Sharon Osbourne
When you’re writing, you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room. – Tom Waits
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. – Voltaire
Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic. – Terry Eagleton
My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command. – Zachary Taylor
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. – Thomas Carlyle
For me, it’s actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It’s so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I’m not really there yet. – Zara Larsson
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably. – Susan Davis
It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It’s easier to try the traditional route and then, if it fails, go to the alternatives, but often it can be too late. – Suzanne Somers