Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

I was a coward on instinct.

Edith Piaf

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Charlotte Bronte

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Brent Weeks

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

B. C. Forbes

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Iyad Allawi

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

Sean Howard

We won't stand for cowardly acts. We just want this rash of violence to end in our community.

Emily Bronte

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shine, And, Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

M. Night Shyamalan

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Dennis Brown

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Ed Droste

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

Nick Miller

We have to get everybody on the same page. Everybody had their own definition of what is appropriate and inappropriate.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

bell hooks

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Jalen Rose

When you're 0-4, things just aren't going your way. We're just not getting it done, our record indicates that, and I'm not going to make any excuses for it.

Dennis Alejo

Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a lot of reason & excuses

Natalie Morales

If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

Jim Provuncher

We did have mental breakdowns. There are no excuses for that.

Jim Cook

There are no excuses for failing on that. You can't get any closer.

Mike Ford

I could stand here and give you all sorts of excuses about why I had the season I did in 2003-04, but I have vowed to be proactive ... in everything I do this season,

Utah Phillips

Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Kobe Bryant

We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night.

Christina Hendricks

I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Alice McDermott

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.