Mental Cowardice Quotes

#1. Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet ...

Winifred Holtby

#2. We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Dan Quayle

#3. I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37, Chronicles, Vol. One).

Bob Dylan

#4. This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.

Joseph Conrad

#5. Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

Joshua Cohen

#6. Trembling" (Phil. 2:12). Even knowing that "it is God who works in [us]" (Phil. 2:13), we are our own responsibility. This is a very different picture than many of us are used to. Some individuals see their needs

Henry Cloud

#7. Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Rosalind Wiseman

#8. I don't think I'd be able to fit that thing in my mouth, she said conversationally, pursing her lips up thoughtfully as she stared between his legs.

R.L. Mathewson

#9. Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care.

Wayne Visser

#10. Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Allen West

#11. fear is a trigger mechanism
.Let it trigger faith

Ikechukwu Joseph