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The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!
I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie
I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.
A coward is not someone who goes right to your face and tells you exactly how it is. A coward is someone who walks away.
There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.
It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.
I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)
You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.