Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
Quotes about bravado (16 Quotes)
You've got to protect the old bravado.
That (Super Bowl) team was a really tight-knit team. We had characters. We had Hollywood. We had bravado, we had it all. That was our time then. This is our time now. Our time now is what it is. Winning brings about a better situation. It's just as tight. But it's still all about winning.
It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
all the carping about nickels and dimes and billions on the Hill is genuine. Members rail against a budget that's out of balance but then lunge to protect their pet projects when they're under the knife. (Karl Rove can reportedly do a spot-on imitation of a congressman who cycles from budget-cutting bravado to sniveling pleas for hometown pork.)
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
Gestures, lines, soft loops and gentle slashed dance around, in and out of the painted surfaces with delightful assurance and bravado.
He's radiating confidence it may even be bravado, ... He was thinking ahead. This could have been a very damaging photo. Instead I think most people will look at this and chuckle.
The essential thing about Bob Hope was he wasn't a winner, but he had a bravado, and he was willing to say now and again he was scared.
First of all, Jessica Lynch deserves all the treatment that she is getting. She was a victim of Iraq, and the Army built around her this caricature of American bravado. They said she was shot and stabbed and shot to the last bullet, and she did not say that, and that did not happen. But they sought to use her as a propaganda tool for American bravado.
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
It's premature to say the audience is changing wholesale. Rap is going to change and audience is being developed as it changes. ... But there will always be a place for commercial rap that glorifies money and violence. People like to hear that. There's something refreshing about bravado in music. But there will always be a place for something that's thoughtful and well-informed. I'm confident there's a place for these guys. ... There needs to be a voice saying something other than violence.
You can understand the frustration, but all it does is hasten the day of the last paycheck. It's more bravado at this point than it is rational thought.
The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts.