I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
How precious is your belief without the backbone to accomplish something — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. — Jerome Cady Copy Share Image
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment-are all the blackest of black… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
“It was cowardice, Mr Stevens. Simple cowardice. Where could I have gone? I have no family. Only my aunt. I love her… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image