J. K. Rowling Quotes

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.

I'm glad it was me instead of you, Frank. The country needs you.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I would not hesitate for a nanosecond to step in front of a bullet, to do anything to give my life for my children.

I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?

The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.

Very few people know someone who would voluntarily go into a war zone to protect a person he has never met. I know 1,000 of them, and I am proud that they are part of our team.

I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.

Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.

Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.