Roy Thompson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
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If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
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By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
