Quotes About Bravery

I squared my shoulders and threw open the truck door. "Today or tomorrow, it'll still be my first day back. I should face it and get it over with. Who knows? Something new and exciting might happen." "You do realize we're still in Salmon Creek, right?" "I'm being optimistic." "Well, don't. You're scaring me." I laughed and climbed out.

Maybe there's something out there. Giant eels or whatever." "Giant eels?" Corey let out a whoop of a laugh, too loud and too long. Desperate to cast off the fear and unease and find his old self again. "Hey, I'm not the moron who was worried about great white sharks," said Sam. "Um, that was Nic.

I swung onto the next branch as Rafe did the same on the other side. I felt the bear's hot breath on my stockinged foot and snatched it away as his teeth clicked together. He roared in frustration, then leaned on the tree and shook it again. "Hold on!" Rafe shouted, like I was planning on doing anything else.

Stopping to whine is only going to get us nabbed by the cops when that bastard calls 911." "I wasn't whining," I said. "Close enough.

Ask me anything." "Fine. What's the scariest thing you've ever done?" He laughed. "Wow. Straight for the jugular.

Go on, then," Daniel said. "But don't expect me to come to your rescue if you do something stupid again." Rafe stopped, crouching. "Stupid? What the hell did I--?" "Standing up to a bear? Yeah, kinda stupid.

So you rescued us on your own?" Corey said. "Yes," I said. "You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it?" He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. "Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?

No one ever built a fort because the world was safe.

And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monsters.

Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.

But desperate people find courage.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.

man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good.

Era fácil pronunciar palabras valientes en la oscuridad. La luz del día podía contar una historia muy diferente.

Her Protestant pastor had been sympathetic, until the Gestapo terrified him into silence. Perhaps the same would happen again. But she did not know what else to do. Heinrich took

A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .

We'll see, Grigori thought as he drifted off to sleep. Brave words came easily in the dark. Daylight might tell a different story.

Brave words came easily in the dark. Daylight might tell a different story.

The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.

There were certain things one had to do before one could really call oneself a man, and fighting for king and country was among them. They

She opened her eyes again once, before she died, and said, "You'll have to win the war without me, kiddo.

A man who has no fear can do anything he wants

When there is no longer any possibility of running away, you realize how fiercely you can fight.