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...

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

Además de esclavo de las palabras, a veces se es también esclavo de los silencios, sobre todo de los más cobardes.

Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of...

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows...

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?”Of course. Who said it?”I don’t know.”He was probably a coward,’ she said. “He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The...

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he...

When I had thought for a moment that I wasn’t going to be able to do it, that I was a coward, and then found out that I could do it, you can’t imagine how...

If you don’t make a few ememies now and then, you’re a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!- Angela to Eragon

Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: ‘I had and have no involvement with...

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.

Be not intimidated…nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and...

All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit. Certainly that was...