But perhaps one Syrian or Afghan who braves a thousand dangers, makes it to Calais, and goes through hell in the Jungle, will eventually think of this as part of his life, a brief period of hardship in the journey towards fulfilling his dreams.
Besides, the popular image of the hard-charging astronaut braving mortal danger, as other men might brave a trip to the dentist, was exaggerated.
There are however, Iranians who brave the danger and speak out against their government's foreign policy.
So her solution is to go to the poorest country in the western hemisphere every summer, to brave the dangers of a notoriously violent, unstable society under the rule of Baby Doc Duvalier in the late 1970s - and while she's there, she finds something like bliss.
The deep sea is a mysterious frontier, difficult to reach for exploration and seen by a very small number of scientists who brave the dangers of submerging themselves hundreds, even thousands of feet below the surface.
6 P.M. (Flix) ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING (1987) A baby sitter (Elisabeth Shue) living in suburban Chicago must brave the dangers of the city with the kids in tow when her friend (Penelope Ann Miller) runs away from home in this comedy directed by Chris Columbus.
The only test possessing any real value, of a people's having become fit for popular institutions, is that they, or a sufficient proportion of them to prevail in the contest, are willing to brave labour and danger for their liberation" (1963, vol. 21: 121).
Fatima's parents will not forget the day a rescue car braved the danger and distance over rough roads to reach their village.
Israelis understand the risks of even limited intervention more than most, and are willing to brave those dangers to achieve the greater goal of smashing the Iranian axis and recalibrating stability in the region.
Near the end of Kevin Patterson's smart and exciting narrative of maritime adventure, he admits something that travel writers rarely do: the issues that drove him to brave the dangers of faraway places were not resolved by virtue of his travels.
