"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
I think only fools are absolutely without fear.
2007-03-23 16:20:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I always liked Hemingway's (he is the butcher at our local Safeways store) definition of courage: " Grace under pressure." Few of us have it, and that includes me, but there are those who exemplify this. I knew a few of them in Vietnam. They are no longer with us. We will not agree in many ways politically, but I find your answers provoking and thoughtful. It would be a boring world if we all held the same opinions. The wheel may never have been invented if we all thought alike.
2007-03-24 08:22:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe so, maybe not - however, Mark might disagree with you.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Following the Equator; Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
- Life on the Mississippi
If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
- Letter to Olivia Clemens, 1/23/1885
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
2007-03-23 16:37:00 · answer #2 · answered by birdwatcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terror / Horror. Terror is fear, taken raw. Horror is fear, digested. Let's omit for now the political context, and deal with these things as they affect one individual. Terror is what happens when you are in great and immediate fear (provoked by danger and menace, and perhaps other things). It activates the sympathetic nervous system, initiating what some have called the "fight or flight" response. The body prepares itself for an emergency which is not emergent, but already here. You may sweat, get goosebumps, and have your irises and bronchi dilate. You need to pump air, because your heart is already pumping out more blood. Some blood vessels (like those in the long muscles and skin) enlarge to accommodate more blood, to provide energy where it is needed. Some vessels compress, like those in the G.I. tract, where the sphincters also may contract. Incontinence is observed in some individuals. The sympathetic nervous system includes many nervous pathways, and the endocrine system as well. The adrenal glands pump out epinephrine at a greatly increased rate. Some individuals may be paralyzed by fear ("in a funk"), others may be able to take off running. Some can even fight back (circumstances permitting). Being terrified is a whole body experience.
Being horrified may lead to nausea and nightmares, but we experience it much more cerebrally, as an observer. We are appalled by what we observe, disgusted, sometimes filled with dread and foreboding. It's an emotional experience, but it has more to do with what's happening around us than what's happening to us.
2007-03-23 23:43:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and I agree with just about everything Sam Clemens said. He's one of my all time heroes.
2007-03-23 16:24:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain is one of my favorite writers and he's well known for his quotations. Of course, I agree w/ him.
2007-03-23 16:27:45 · answer #5 · answered by they're savages 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do...and you gotta read his "Letters From Earth." A really best ever belly laugh.
He's the best, huh?.
2007-03-23 16:53:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
fear is one of my motivations to living.
2007-03-23 16:25:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I had that quote on my page at one point, I completely agree
2007-03-23 16:29:43 · answer #8 · answered by d☻min☺ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but I do about what he said about golf...a good walk spoiled...when you aren't hitting it well anyway...when you are on it is euphoric...sorry to have changed the subject dude...lol
2007-03-23 16:24:09 · answer #9 · answered by Steelhead 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You scared of me Lt Dan..?
2007-03-24 01:52:08 · answer #10 · answered by smiler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋