Top 1200 Cowardly Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors.

Night after night in the '50s, I traveled all over New York City. The promoter had 10 acts, and the winner each night would get five dollars; second place would get three dollars, and third place would get two dollars. He always put the best acts on last so the people wouldn't walk out, and the worst acts went on first. He always put me on first.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.

It's easy to go on television and say horrible things about somebody. And it's cowardly.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

It is somewhat surprising that collections of the 'hundred best books,' which usually begin with the Bible and generally include Marcus Aurelius, should give no place to the Acts of the General Councils, though mere literary works have done little beyond filling vacant hours, and these Acts have renewed the face of the earth.

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts... I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexuality.

I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.

Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.

I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by a saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.