Quotes About Timid

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

I was always quiet and even timid.

I'm actually very timid and nonconfrontational.

Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.

I was always extremely determined, but I was also quite timid.

I grew up really timid, anxious kid, and I never really had to stand up for myself.

Honestly, man, I'm very, very soft spoken. I'll go in a room and if you don't know me, you'll never know that I was there. I've always been that way, timid in a lot of ways. I don't like making new friends.

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.

There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.

The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn't offer a compelling enough vision.

Messi is a star in every sense. He is not as timid as he seems.

We will be a nation that is engaged not isolated, bold not timid. This is the very stuff of what it means to be us.

The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his respectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to know that there was a soul before him that needed saving?

Terri as a child was shy and overweight.

I think that when I wrote those early books I was timid. I still felt the incredible effrontery of announcing myself to the world (in part I mean the WASP world) as a writer and an artist. I had to touch a great many bases, demonstrate my abilities, pay my respects to formal requirements. In short, I was afraid to let myself go.

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

I personally cannot watch horror films: I am a scaredy cat and scare incredibly easily.

five years work many changes. At the end of a war all our portraits are out of date: the timid man had been given a gun to slay with, and the brave man had found is nerve fail him in the barrage.

You must invest out of passion ! You must invest out of desire ! The same way you invent. The same way you fall in love! If you are too careful, you end up with something timid and unimportant. Something you don't mind losing. And when was that ever something you wanted to fight for?

Why, he's a coward, thought Blackie. He's a blustering poltroon, lily-livered, and full of hot air!