#timid

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it? ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#does #dork #find #get #girl

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#being #books #campuses #come #ever

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#democracy #document #hours #intimidation #law

Necessity makes even the timid brave. ↗

— Sallust

#even #makes #necessity #timid

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#give #indifferent #opposed #remind #strong

She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but by a desire to experience life completely and to make life a little easier for the people around her ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#experience

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#energy #focus #intimidation #less #lifestyle

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. ↗

— Alice Walker

#insults #intended #long #long time #made

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#i #intimidate #just #think #would

Intimidation doesn't last very long. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

#last #long #very