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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.
Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.
To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
I've always wanted to explore different types of roles and prove to others that Divyanka is not all about being a timid dulhan.
Women pay attention to how men drive because it's a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who's going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
I'm a girly girl. I'm strong, but I'm very timid. Very dainty.
Chess is not for timid souls.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.
I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.
We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.
The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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.
If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.