Cowering Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge…
— Annie Dillard
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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain…
— D. H. Lawrence
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"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence,…
— Dalai Lama
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I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it…
— Charles Dickens
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
— Orison Swett Marden
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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some…
— Salman Rushdie
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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly…
— Terry Pratchett
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An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully…
— Katie MacAlister
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Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.
— J R Ward
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The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.
— Malcolm Forbes
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Cowering Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Cowering Quotes as follows: