I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.
The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities. . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
Feeble and timid minds. . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
Nosology (from the Greek nosos, meaning disease, and logos, referring to study) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.
The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.