For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.
Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending. . . among women and children,". "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men.
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.
I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.
