Sentences with phrase «kind of courage for»

It takes a certain kind of courage for a post-Post-Minimalist artist, born in 1971, to make such clearly articulated forms.

It takes a special kind of courage for a famous artist to drag 40 - year - old apprentice pieces out of the attic and make an exhibition of them.

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Both the pathos and the courage of many such children, suffering appalling handicaps and sometimes with the certain knowledge of imminent death, was for me a kind of trek with Job.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

For we are all imitators: other brave sheriffs would follow; to be a dauntless sheriff would come to be recognized as the correct and only the dreaded disapproval would fall to the share of the other kind; courage in this office would become custom, the absence of it a dishonor, just as courage presently replaces the timidlty of the new soldier; then the mobs and the lynchings would disappear, and --

When a person or group is dominated by a sense of impending loss, the resulting fear demands a kind of absolutizing of what already exists, and it dispels any courage for looking to ideals beyond the present imperfect situation.

Objectivists should at least have the courage to say they're either Satanists or Atheists... I might even have a grudging respect for that kind of declaration.

As it happens, I am no devotee of school prayer, on the ground that it is a distraction, a kind of trivializing surrogacy for truly weighty issues this society must find the courage to face and deal with.

We are created for communion with God and our neighbour in a life which offers communion on terms which require courage and trust in a future we can not see, which postpones fulfilment and does not allow every kind of immediate gratification.

Thus, having little spiritual courage for undergoing humiliation at any level, we manifest in our common life today what I can only consider a kind of repressed melancholy — the melancholy of those who wish above all not to appear melancholy.

Don Cockell was acclaimed by sportswriters on both sides of the Atlantic for his ability to absorb hundreds of Marciano's hardest blows, and one Englishman went so far as to write that»... this was the kind of extra courage which makes you proud to belong to the human race and to have been sired by the same breed as the boy who grew up in the back streets of Battersea.»

Thank you for giving me the courage to be the kind of mother I naturally was but was insecure about stepping into.

He is a braying charlatan, who lacks the courage even to be an honest bastard, for there is a kind of bastardly integrity in showing the world who you really are, but instead uses the tactics of the coward and the tricks of the fraudster to advance his worthless career.»

«You need men and women of strong character and courage who will not only be able to turn down inducement of any kind but also act without consideration for tribe, friendship, religion or any other parochial considerations.»

She follows the advice of her late mother to «have courage and be kind,» a phrase that is uttered so often in this film that, if you chose to play a drinking game where you drank a shot each time you heard it, you'd be dead before the main character got transformed for the ball.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

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This year's Ten Outstanding Books were chosen for exemplifying this kind of courage, creativity, and independent spirit.

Watch out for these two kind of fears: the fear of God that gives courage and wisdom to overcome the fears in the world and to accomplish your God given mission distinctively, and the fear of the world that gives you excuses and hinders you from fulfilling your God given vision.

«As a woman, and with no history of skateboarding or a tattoo in sight, it initially took great courage to enter this scene and capture intimate moments of the skaters and their spectators; but eight months on and I have found this scene to be warm and welcoming, bringing locals and bule (Indonesian word for foreigner) of all ages together; kind of like an open community and we're all invited.»

There's nothing to be done but to go on restating the importance of this kind of courage, and to try to make sure that these oppressed individuals — Ai Weiwei, the members of Pussy Riot, Hamza Kashgari — are seen for what they are: men and women standing on the front line of liberty.»

Any effort that demonstrates this kind of ingenuity, creativity, passion and leadership for leaving this planet a better place, man oh man, whether young people, middle aged or those of the great golden years, we should all be supportive of this kind of courage, leadership and individuality.

These experiences have humbled me, given me a profound respect for the courage it takes to grapple with what life brings our way, and has enabled me to provide the kind of space for my clients that was provided for me.

In a previous article I wrote about a parallel topic to this one, I mentioned The Serenity Prayer, a common name for an originally untitled prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, is universally apropos to any kind of change, and equally valid for the Canadian real estate industry: «Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.»