Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Brent Weeks

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

Janet Reno

Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.

William Shakespeare

I was a coward on instinct.

Edmund Burke

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

B. C. Forbes

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

William Shakespeare

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

Daniel Waldschmidt

There is no middle ground when taking the hill. You either stay in the foxhole or fight to the finish. Turning back just gets you shot in the back - and no one wants to finish as a coward.

Edith Piaf

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Cervantes Saavedra

True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Duke of Wellington

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Confucius

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Mohandas Gandhi

Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Ernest Hemingway

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Johnson

In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Charlie Bell

When he finished last season, he came on like gangbusters once we got to know him and once he got the feel of varsity football, ... He was showing us all summer what we've got, offensively and defensively, so there's no surprise to us. Josh is just born with talent and skill, but to his credit, he works extremely hard to maximize it.

Tom Shales

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

Titus Welliver

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.

Joe Torre

We know he just lives for this type of situation. You have to be born with that need to compete.

Andrew Coates

Venus was born with the same sorts of constituents as Earth, which means there was some water in the environment. Some more probably came in from comets.

Diane Wakoski

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

Eiza Gonzalez

I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.

Elliot Perlman

I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.