Top 59 Cower Quotes
#1. My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears.
Andrea Levy
#2. Faith doesn't grow or deepen when we cower in secrecy. Faith strengthens as we go public.
James MacDonald
#4. Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#5. WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of
what people may think.
There is one answer
to worries like these:
people may think
what the devil they please.
Piet Hein
#6. Because those who cower forget how to stand and, in time, can only crawl.
Dean Koontz
#7. Fear only has power when I cower under the illusion.
Poppet
#8. ...from this day on, whenever he sought to master a woman, whether by threat or strength or even with a look, the fear would flare and overtake him -- so wild and sudden it would drop him to his knees to cower in terror, gibbering for solace from his distant, punishing god.
Laini Taylor
#9. They're not really homes. More like houses where we sleep.
Where we eat - if we're lucky. Where we cry and fight.
Where we bleed and break. Where we cower and scream.
Where we give up. Where we sigh.
Where we barely survive.
Chelsea Fine
#10. As the saw teeth caught on the bone, she had performed a second surgery, one less bloody but no less brutal, excising from his heart the impulse to run, to cower, to let the man bleed to death rather than face the horror of saving him. The amputation had left both patients lighter. p 121-122
Anthony Marra
#11. Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower ...
Iris Murdoch
#12. How many more times are we going to cower under tables and chairs, whimpering like mindless dogs, thinking that someone else has the responsibility to save and protect us?
Ted Nugent
#13. Some are born brilliant, some have brilliance thrust upon them
and others cower in the dark crying, It burns! It burns!
K.A. Laity
#14. Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.
Steve Maraboli
#16. Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
John Doolittle
#17. But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.
James Clemens
#18. This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?
S.A. Tawks
#19. The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#20. Only love can free us from fear. Fear causes us to cower in the shadows; Love allows us to dance in the sunlight.
Donald L. Hicks
#21. Understand your power. Live dangerously. Live fearlessly. Cower before no earthly master. Know yourself. Live truthfully. Live freely. Be yourself. Love yourself.
Bryant McGill
#22. Create space in your mind for the harsh memories too. Don't ever cower from a teacher. Learn and live higher because you know how to use those dark memories as stepping-stones to think your way to a higher form of living.
Toni Sorenson
#23. AMERICANISM, n. 1) The desire to purge America of all those qualities which make it a more or less tolerable place in which to live; 2) The ability to simultaneously kiss ass, follow your boss's orders, swallow a pay cut, piss in a bottle, cower in fear of job loss, and brag about your freedom.
Ambrose Bierce
#24. Go on," he offered magnanimously. "Feel free to piss on yourselves and
cower helplessly."
Gods, sometimes his generosity overwhelmed him.
G.A. Aiken
#25. Though here's a tip, though. Just 'ho, ho, ho' will do. Don't say, 'Cower, brief mortals' unless you want them to grow up to be moneylenders or some such.
Terry Pratchett
#26. Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.
Tom DeLonge
#27. If you can fight, you don't have to fight. And you don't have to cower. And girls like that, whatever they say.
Martin Amis
#28. You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.
Gwenn Wright
#29. Stop letting everyone else tell you what's wrong and right. Stake a claim! You cower when you could conquer.
Tahereh Mafi
#30. I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
William Ellery Channing
#31. The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.
Colley Cibber
#32. Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave.
Vaddey Ratner
#33. Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Holmes
#34. Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#35. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.
Karen Marie Moning
#36. I don't like running away," Michael; brought his eyes from the floor to mine. "I don't run, I don't hide, I don't cower, I don't beg, Cassie, because running and hiding and begging doesn't work. It never works.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#37. Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!
Jim Gilmore
#38. Yes, cower! If you simpletons truly understood what you have just seen, you would be down on your knees worshipping me! HA! HA HA HA HA HA!
Richard Roberts
#39. Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.
Cheryl Strayed
#40. Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.
Roger Crawford
#41. Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?
Lionel Suggs
#42. She swept her knife through the first shade, as Grandmother had taught. Never creep back and cower before shades. You're Forescout blood. You claim the Forests. You are their creature as much as any other. As am I ...
Brandon Sanderson
#43. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
Ray Bradbury
#44. No!" Shawn whispered harshly. "If you want to break and run then that's your affair. But I've never known you to cower in the corner when there was a perfectly good opportunity to get yourself killed lurking around the next turn.
Abigail Roux
#45. Will they cower?' Kym asked.
'Tons of cowering! Plus your name in the summer programme. A custom-designed banner. A cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Two shrines. I'll even throw in a Kymopoleia action figure.'
'No!' Polybotes wailed. 'Not merchandising rights!
Rick Riordan
#46. When you are not full of the Holy Spirit, you easily cower in fear and lack a stand on truth
Paul Gitwaza
#47. It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Edward Dahlberg
#48. Emerge; don't cower.
Endure; don't run.
Nurture; don't abandon
Raji Lukkoor
#49. You'd think we're never going to die, the way we cower and second-guess and fret over each little action.
Johnny B. Truant
#50. So easily she broke her word. The fire did not cower down nor the wind rise; her heart beat on quietly. Maybe it was more like a disease than an injury: the seed was sown but not yet sprouted. Perjury, shapeshifting: which was more mortal?
Pamela Dean
#51. Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
William C. Bryant
#52. We are surrounded by monsters," she said. "We can cower before them or we can pick one and sink our teeth in with the aim to give it hell.
Eli Brown
#53. He would rather know what's outside, see the summer in its sad blowing wreckage, than cower behind the blind and wonder what the damage is. - Thomas Cromwell - Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
#54. It was time to stand up for herself and move forward, not cower in submission as other people made bad decisions for her.
Angie Stanton
#55. Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whisper.
I know who you really are. Who will ever want you, Adelina?
My fury heightens. Everyone. They will cower at my feet, and I will make them bleed.
Marie Lu
#56. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat
Dean Alfange
#57. Our people would rather go honorably in a fight against evil than cower under its hand." Raphael took a long, deep breath, his shoulders straightening and his head rising. "No one," he vowed, "will ever subjugate those who are our own. Never will we surrender.
Nalini Singh
#58. I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.
Brooklyn Decker
#59. When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.
Charles Spurgeon
