Quotes of: Cowardice Keyword

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

Theophrastus

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Randall Terry

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

James Callis

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Ayn Rand

I'd suffocate. From my own cowardice.

And the Dark Sacred Night

The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.

Pratik Akkawar

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Theophrastus

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Jean Baudrillard

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Peter Ustinov

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

Jerome Cady

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Francis Parker Yockey

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

John Adams

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

East of Eden

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Embassytown

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

Leos Carax

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

Kevin Patterson

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

Kirsten Gillibrand