“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”
Ruth Gordon (1896–1985) American playwright and actress
Snakes and Foxes Game
(15 September 1992)
“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”
Ruth Gordon (1896–1985) American playwright and actress
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
7:87
Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
Aphorisms
Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i (1839).
Books
Mando Alvarado actor
On how Texas influences his writings in “SIN MUROS: INTERVIEW WITH “LIVING SCULPTURE” PLAYWRIGHT MANDO ALVARADO” https://thetheatretimes.com/sin-muros-interview-living-sculpture-playwright-mando-alvarado/ in The Theatre Times
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
Transformations (1971)