#coward

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#almost #always #cowardice #functioning #imagination

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. ↗

— Herodotus

#being #better #boldness #cowardly #evils

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. ↗

— Eric Holder

#been #continue #cowards #essentially #ethnic

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#could #coward #guess #i #say

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#bear #bearing #calamities #cowardice #flee

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#anybody #anyway #battle #because #blair

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#coward #discredit #movement #out #real

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. ↗

— Albert Camus

#coward #fool #hope #human #human condition

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#bullies #cowards #credited #heart #instinct