Quotes About Timid

I do not care for the body, I love the timid soul, the blushing, shrinking soul; it hides, for it is afraid, and the bold, obtrusive body— Pray, marm, did you call me? We are very small... I think we grow still smaller — this tiny, insect life the portal to another; it seems strange — strange indeed.

China wants Western countries to be timid. Its strategic foreign policy has been to make any criticism of the Communist Party of China seem unreasonable or even Sinophobic.

I had staked all on Gussie making a favourable impression on his hostess, basing my confidence on the fact that he was one of those timid, obsequious, teacup-passing, thin-bread- and-butter-offering, yes-men whom women of my Aunt Dahlia's type nearly always like at first sight.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

Qualified help was weak and timid. Either you come out dead against the attachment or else help without reservation, without giving the impression of reluctance and disapproval.

She was sitting there in her little housedress. He knew she'd done what she could to avoid becoming luminous and unattainable. Timidly and with respect, he was looking at her. He'd grown older, weary, curious. But he didn't have a single word to say. From the open doorway he saw his wife on the sofa without leaning back, once again alert and tranquil, as if on a train. That had already departed.

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

sorriso tímidodoce dela. (...) Sarangerel, nome de ave e de mel. Ou de luar.

Fear is a quicksand that slows and grips and strangles, leaving its victims unable to act, too timid to do what life requires.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is always an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers; the too fast, the timid and oneself.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

Meaning,you do nothing, Claire. That's an order.' She gave him a cocked mock salute. Yes, sir, sorry, sir.' He sighed. I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?' I started living with you guys.' Oh, right.

He wondered what the point was of possessing a wild heart if it was ultimately harnessed by a timid soul. Others were capable of the adventure he yearned for

Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening wore on, began to seem remarkable for utter lack of anything noteworthy. It began to appear as a fragile never-never land, populated with timid souls in continual retreat from the real world outside and even from one another within.

Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. Those taught the lessons of subordination are oft timid in the school of self-service.

Chamberlain was too timid to take that advice, but he was not entirely blind to the deepening danger. "Is it not positively horrible," he wrote, "to think that the fate of hundreds of millions depends on one man, and he is half mad? I keep racking my brains to try and devise some means of averting a catastrophe.

his reputation for shouting things that more conventional politicians were too timid to whisper. The senator's skin, however, was paper-thin, and he seemed not to care very much whether his startling disclosures had any basis in fact.

History has been unkind to timid presidents. It has been downright cruel to those who think themselves above the Constitution.

speaking style pleased many voters, as did his reputation for shouting things that more conventional politicians were too timid to whisper. The senator's skin, however, was paper-thin, and he seemed not to care very much whether his startling disclosures had any basis in fact.

His down-to-earth speaking style pleased many voters, as did his reputation for shouting things that more conventional politicians were too timid to whisper. The senator's skin, however, was paper-thin, and he seemed not to care very much whether his startling disclosures had any basis in fact.

My silence is not a sign of acceptance, ignorance or weakness, behind my timid smile and the sadness in my eyes lies a man who knows that time must pass.

That is how I think of peace and peace of mind—as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.