" "Where there are sixty pupils," said I; for I knew the number, and with my usual base habit of cowardice, I shrank into my sloth like a snail into its shell, and alleged incapacity and impracticability as a pretext to escape action.
Taken with another fit of cowardice, I cried out for Joseph.
Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house.
"It is only your guest, sir," I called out, desirous to spare him the humiliation of exposing his cowardice further.
I'm not afraid, for I've done it a dozen times with the other fellows; but we gave it up because it is short and bad," he said, still good-natured, though a little hurt at the charge of cowardice; for Jack was as brave as a little lion, and with the best sort of bravery,—the courage to do right.
It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations.
This idea became stronger as she felt more and more certain that she knew the road quite well, and she was considering how she might open a conversation with the injured gypsy, and not only gratify his feelings but efface the impression of her cowardice, when, as they reached a cross-road, Maggie caught sight of some one coming on a white-faced horse.
He turned a deeper red even than usual, he being a man of full habit and red anyhow, at the thought of such cowardice.
But cowardice was not among James Stirling's shortcomings.
When we are faced with a challenge, we have no cowardice, no retreat, no hesitate to move forward.
Yellow: Seem friendly : Yellow is typically thought of as a friendly and cheery color, but it's also got associations to anger, frustration, and cowardice.
But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live, courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift.
If you stay quiet, people are going to wonder why you didn't say something, and they're likely to attribute this to either cowardice or ignorance.
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence.
But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift.
But is it true that tears only on behalf of cowardice?
I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
The story revolves around Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman), a clumsy sad sack who's spent his entire life turning the other cheek not in bravery, but in cowardice.
To be afraid is cowardice.
