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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
American
Dramatist
Born:
Nov 30
,
1947
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,
Lazy
,
Afraid
,
Being
,
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,
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,
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It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Judge
Speak
Gossip
Cowardly
Wicked
Strike
Only
Absent
Instead
Narrow-Minded
Person
Just
Persons
Ignorant
Things
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
Friendship
Great
True Friendship
Be True
Cowardly
Only
Never
True
Know
True Friends
Friends
Hearted
Mean
Means
Who
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You
People
Fear
Disagree
Cowardly
Too
Those
Know
Who
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Robert Crumb
You
Courage
Commitment
Yourself
People
Desperation
Half
Cowardly
Suicide
Kind
Kinda
Lead
Takes
Major
Most
Dull
Just
Substances
Where
Lives
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar Wilde
Work
Art
Ethics
Will
Beauty
Cowardly
Own
Rich
Lesson
Complete
Those
Moral
See
Vital
Strongly
More
Shame
Instincts
Terror
Aesthetic
Than
Artistic
Who
Appeal
Fill
Whom
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
Man
Reality
Cowardly
Way
Touch
Only
He
Wits
Pray
His
End
Get
Thing
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man
Woman
Women
Stupidity
Men
Stupid
Cowardly
Say
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley
Man
Eyes
Mind
Cowardly
Other
Seem
Share
Judgments
Always
Refined
Brave
Ashamed
Straightforward
Gross
Evasive
Presence
Imagine
Imagining
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus
Fear
Better
Half
Cowardly
Evils
Run
Risk
Remain
Noble
Subject
Anticipate
Than
Being
Happen
Might
Boldness
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Change
Cowardly
Crimes
Air
Most
Executioner
Perjury
Common
Meanest
Breathe
Axe
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