107 quotes found
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”
“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
“Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. ”
“Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final analysis as the most tender woman who had ever ex...”
“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”
“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
“Son, never trust a man who doesnt drink because hes probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, ...”
“He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in ...”
“And Athos had. Hed broken Holland one bone, one day, one order at a time. Until all Holland wanted, more than the ability to save his world, more than the strength to bring the magic back, more tha...”
“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frightenpeople, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”
“If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a co...”
“I was a coward. I went to the war.”
“I'm a fucking coward.""Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.”
“They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge...”
“One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda”
“The coward says in his heart There is no love. Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant...”
“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There is nothing noble about it. It t...”
“we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We...”
“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”
