I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen. – Daniel Handler
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. – Edgar Allan Poe
What’s so brave about being bald? I’ve not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer – I’ve just gone out without my hat on! – Gail Porter
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage… between compromise – even calculated risk – and irresponsibility and capitulation. – Ehud Barak
I’ve become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. – David Mitchell
I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control. – Natalia Kills
God bless the Union; – it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence. – Edward Everett
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. – Melissa Bean
You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It’s difficult, because there’s a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable. – Felicity Jones
I suppose ‘Worried About the Boy’ was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn’t get it right, my career would be over before it had begun. – Douglas Booth
Editors have grown timid… a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention. – Muriel Rukeyser
Preaching is the most original thing I’ve ever done. There’s nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave. – George Foreman
I read the ‘Harry Potter’ books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don’t think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He’s always brave, and he’s perfect in a lot of ways. – Jeff Kinney
I love actresses who are brave and don’t do what’s expected of them or don’t play off how they look or take risks. – Kelly Reilly
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
I don’t much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry. – Jasmine Guy
I think I’m brave because I’ve made decisions based – I hope not entirely selfishly – on what I think is right for me to do next. – Maeve Binchy
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. – Mahatma Gandhi
It’s almost sickening now that the regulators ‘on the beat’ while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their ‘brave’ stance on short-selling! – James Chanos
