"Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity,……" — Leif Enger

"Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic."

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31 Quotes by Leif Enger

Leif Enger has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.
You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of…
Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.
Routine is worry's sly assassin.
Fair is whatever God wants to do.
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we…
We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit…
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can…
I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.
Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.
My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring…
Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that,…

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More Curiosity Quotes

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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity,… — Russell Baker
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something… — Franklin P. Adams
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who… — Bruce Barton
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. — Martha Beck
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. — Robert Benchley
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they… — Isaiah Berlin
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed… — Ambrose Bierce
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke

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