Coward Quotes - Page 13

• In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Views, Law, Want

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• Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those two things ever conflicted? Would we be the brave ones who still found the capacity for love - and for laughter - even while we were terrified?

  Chris Cleave

  Laughter, Hero, Order

  "We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test"--Chris Cleave on "Everyone Brave Is Forgiven". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

  Ossie Davis

  Hard Work, Long, Secret

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• Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Independence, Revolution

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

  Junius

  Fawns, Dare, Insolent

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• I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Likes, Punk

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: 'I'm Ready to Run a Studio'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Most people are cowards.

  Bernard von NotHaus

  People

  Source: www.wherestherage.com

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• God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.

  Sterling W Sill

  Men, Fool, Should

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• I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, Choices, Waiting

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it, we may wage the battle of our life The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty - of Him who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Blessing

  Adolf Hitler's speech on March 3, 1933, as quoted in "The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922 - August 1939" edited by Norman H. Baynes (p. 409), 1969.

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• I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Choices, Waiting, Age

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Revenge, Hate, Men

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• I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mouths

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Strong, Talking, Evil

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to end, part ass if you knew where to look; or so good that nothing at all about him was despicable.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Wise, Men, Brave

  James Gould Cozzens (1948). “Guard of Honor”

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• Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

  Dean Koontz

  Perseverance, Men, Soul

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• All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

  John Dryden

  Profession

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 5.

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• Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

  Alexander Lowen

  Death, Hero, Fate

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• People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.

  Bertrand Russell

  Eye, Men, People

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.546, Psychology Press

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• And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fate, Men, Brave

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• An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Army, Men, Hands

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

  Plutarch

  Winning, Men, Doe

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

  John Lahr

  Momentum, Exhilaration, Century

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• The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Two, Reason

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, ch. 4, 2002.

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• I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

  David Gemmell

  Thinking, Kind, Carrie

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, ch. 4, 2002.

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