Best Cowardly Quotes
222 Cowardly quotes by 188 unique authors
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There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the champion? In what…
— Chael Sonnen
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That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was…
— Norma Fox Mazer
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my…
— Wallace Stegner
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
— Tacitus
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Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct…
— Northrop Frye
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The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not…
— Plato
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Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.
— Tom Daschle
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It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.
— Jean Chretien
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I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would…
— Jean Chretien
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
— H. L. Mencken
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I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly…
— Unknown Author
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He is never cowardly.
— Paulo Coelho
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For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the…
— Frederick Douglass
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All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In…
— Peter Kropotkin
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I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover…
— James Cameron
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Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.
— Sandra Bernhard
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It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it…
— Edgar Degas
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
— Christopher Lasch
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Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in…
— Heinrich Himmler
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The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the…
— Bill Klem
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune;…
— Tacitus
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To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their…
— Jeremy Collier
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