Timorously Quotes

#1. It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]

Joseph Conrad

#2. We carve our destinies blindfolded, with sharp knives.

Claire Fontaine

#3. It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

Adam Smith

#4. Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.

Clifford Williams

#5. I think with age you get wiser and understand the importance of taking care of your skin. I think you're also more aware of your mortality.

Josie Bissett

#6. As a father, he was generous. More or less. The "less" was because he never gave me what I wanted. He gave me only what he wanted me to have. I found this was often true with philanthropy and with love. The giver's desire and fulfillment played an important role.

Monique Truong

#7. Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved.

Graham Swift

#8. If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

Gary Cooper

#10. Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach'rous shore.

Horace

#11. The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing.

Bo Burnham

#12. Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Gilles Deleuze

#13. How could I put across to him how it was with me? How much I was driven timorously by a desire to please and yet found myself stubbornly unable to do so by obedience to any values but my own? Since my values were not shared by those around me, I couldn't possibly win.

Barbara Trapido

#14. The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.

Paul Boateng

#15. You have to be brave to be good" Maharaja Siddhivarun - Vasu and the Matsya Temple

Rajeev Tanwar

#16. I just hate talking about myself.

Miuccia Prada

#17. Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To "never avenge yourselves" (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God's blessing also on their lives.

Greg Gordon