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Quotes About Courage

DüÅŸünce fazlas?yla ac? vermeye baÅŸlad???nda eylem en güzel devad?r.
~ Salman Rushdie
It was the resilience in human beings that represented their best chance of survival, their ability to look the unimaginable, the unconscionable, the unprecedented in the eye.
~ Salman Rushdie
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
~ Salman Rushdie
Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man.
~ Salman Rushdie
his way of walking toward closed doors without slowing down, knowing they would open for him;
~ Salman Rushdie
What is heroism in our time? What is villainy? How much we have forgotten, if we don't know the answer to such questions anymore.
~ Salman Rushdie
Kaderini kucakla dedi, Sana üzüntü verenden keyif al. Kaçmak istediÄŸin ÅŸeye doÄŸru dön ve bütün kalbinle ona koÅŸ. TalihsizliÄŸini yaln?z ona dönüÅŸerek aÅŸabilirsin.
~ Salman Rushdie
Siz olsan?z, s?n?rlar?n karanl?k taraf?na sürgün edildiÄŸinizde karanl??? ayd?nl??a çevirmeye çal??maz m?yd?n?z?
~ Salman Rushdie
It felt as if a thing that had been impossible had become possible, a thing that had been unthinkable had become thinkable, and Luka did not want to give that terrifying thing a name.
~ Salman Rushdie
Any new idea is asked two questions. The first is asked when it's weak: What kind of an idea are you? Are you the kind the compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society? Aims to find a niche to survive? Or are you the cursed, bloody-minded ram rod type of damn fool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? The kind, that almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a hundred , be smashed to bits, but the hundredth time will change the world?
~ Salman Rushdie
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought. I have to go back soon, she told herself, I need to reclaim it or it will be gone, I will be gone from it, and nobody will mourn my loss. She thought about Wile E. Coyote rushing out over the chasm and not falling until he looked down. That's me, her weak voice thought, and then her strong voice answered, Then don't look down.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ngôn ng? là sá»± can ??m: chúng ta hình thành nó t? trong ý nghÄ©, nói nó ra và làm Ä'úng như v?y ?? bi?n nó thành sá»± th?t.
~ Salman Rushdie
Sing against death. Command the wildness of the city.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ich würde lieber im Kampf um große Dichter sterben als in einem Krieg um Götter.
~ Salman Rushdie
orphans know that their survival requires them to be prepared to do whatever is necessary. That there are no limits.
~ Salman Rushdie
can honor be expected of a man who is preparing to storm the city of his birth?
~ Salman Rushdie
when he took his stand on the draft, refusing to go to 'Nam, sacrificing his title, risking jail, putting it all on the line for a principle, he became, well, awesome. In those days the word still meant what it was supposed to mean, "inspiring great admiration/awe," and Ali did that.
~ Salman Rushdie
how he was going to die for his verses, but could not find it in himself to call the death-sentence unjust.
~ Salman Rushdie
It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.
~ Sam Bourne
The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not 'cowards,' as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.
~ Sam Harris
The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.
~ Sam Harris
I really hope that what we are doing inspires young Mexican girls not to be afraid to get involved in sports.
~ Lorena Ochoa
Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.
~ Sylvester Stallone
It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.
~ John Kessel