Timid Quotations

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.

I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

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.

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

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.

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.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

We started the game very well. I don't know that we got timid to let them back in the game. I just think they got their confidence going and they made a run at us. I am just glad that my team got the job done.

What this, in conjunction with the April unemployment report, shows is stabilization in the labor market and timid improvement. By no means are we talking about a roaring improvement in the labor market.

She was kind of a timid dog and now she's very active. (She) talks to people and wants to greet people.

She's an inkblot -- the last person who is going to look at Roe v. Wade and say, 'the reasoning is flawed,' and tell us why, ... She'll just follow the path of every justice in the last 25 years who comes to the bench without a developed philosophy and ends up in the liberal camp. People whose intellect is as thin and dubious as hers will be too intellectually timid to challenge orthodoxy.

She's a very, very timid person, and since she was scared, I was just like, I just wanted her to feel better, so I tried patting her on the back and tried to calm her down.

My knee has been fine. At first, it was hard because all of the tears were from contact. Anybody bumping me or anything made me nervous. I was more timid and shied away, and that's not me. Not at all. I'm learning to be confident and that I'll be OK if and when I play hard on it.

but that for the first time all season, we were timid in the last five minutes. We were afraid to lose.

I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point.

I feel like I've been a little too timid lately. I have to let it all hang out.

I can't guarantee that you will win the lawsuit - in fact you will almost certainly lose. But I warn you that if you are too timid to confront their barbaric behavior, you will be completely defeated.

He has more confidence and a working knowledge of the offense. Last year, each and every week out was a new experience for him. Last year, he was a little timid in the huddle. Now, he's more forceful.

Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones

I thought we came out very timid and that hurt us. From the very beginning it seemed like we were playing on the back of our heels.

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Last year, I was so worried about my knee and my shoulder. I was kind of timid throwing the ball. This year, I just came in and the ball flew right out of my hand. I feel real good.

I was willing to fight anybody but, at the same time, I was timid of the bigger guys.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

I think they're actually playing a little more relaxed. Sometimes they were sort of timid when they got out there (as starters). ... I think they're coming in relaxed and giving us a lot more. These guys come in (off the bench), they're like instant offense.

The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream,

The artist puts things on the table when many of us are too timid to do so.

My breaking ball, I didn't have command of it. I threw a fastball and he really wasn't timid at all.

We came out a little timid the first quarter and that unfortunately set the tone for the rest of the game.

We were very timid with our shooting. They're a quick team, absolutely. And they're very solid, defensively, 18-1 says something about that.

We just got sloppy and faded away. We played timid and really couldn't do much of anything.

We revealed our youth a little bit tonight. This was the first time all season our freshmen became a bit timid and passive, and we tightened up those last two to three minutes. But you have to give them credit, they made some big plays to give us some breathing room.

To begin with, we were tight. We played real tense and timid today. They got up early on us, 3-0, before taking the 5-1 lead after one. We then played outstanding defense in the second period, but we weren't able to score offensively.

Brandon Kirsch doesn't lack confidence. He's not one of those cold and timid souls that's going to disappear when the ball is snapped.

Being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men

Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.

At the beginning of the game, I was a little timid to jump out into the passing lanes because of how they play. Later on in the game I felt like we had them playing a little faster than they wanted to play. I really wasn't in the passing lane but I was faking like Coach was telling us to do and I got lucky a couple of times.

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

I've been teaching for 14 years and I've been on a bunch of field trips, but this, bar none, was the best. The biggest pleasure I got was seeing the kids catch fish. Even the most timid and shy kids were exuberant by the end of the day. It was marvelous.

It was a little too much Blaine Howell and a little too much A.C. Reynolds tonight. We played a little bit timid or nervous or scared or what you want to call it. I was a little disappointed in the way our kids performed. But there were some things that we can learn from, some things that we can do better and hopefully improve upon before the season is over.

The old saying that capital is the most timid thing in the world and does not like pioneering is strongly emphasized by such instances as this, and no doubt in 1864 the enormous grants of free land made by Congress did not appear especially attractive to the man who had money to invest.

That's kind of their trademark, to play hard and apply pressure. I think we came out a little timid and didn't attack their pressure like we probably should have. And that was the difference in the game as far as our approach to attacking their pressure.

Zach did a great job today. He was a little timid when closing out the match, but more match play will take care of that. Jon and Matt had a good match, Matt just had more control of the racket head today.

This is a timid step in the right direction. This bill would have been better if it had been bolder.

A lot of the kids were timid in the beginning, but they were really moving by the end. Being with other kids with heart disease who had never exercised helped melt away a lot of their anxiety. It was quite a metamorphosis.

There is this natural inclination to get more timid when you lose your ability to earn money. No one wants to live with the kids and everyone wants a new car every few years.

It really clicked for us tonight. But the whole game changed when No. 12 (Woodruff) went out. She is a great player for them, and you could tell it made a difference. But I am pleased that we came in here and didn't back down. We were a little timid in practice, but we weren't tonight. We've grown up a lot this year.

I told them before the game that I thought the team that went and took it was going to win the game and I thought that was the difference. I thought we got very timid down the stretch, stopped moving the ball, which was very clear. And they made plays.

For far too many years Canada has been timid and reluctant to put human rights squarely on the table in meetings with the Chinese government, scared that pushing too hard on human rights might detract from trade and investment prospects.

Nobody beats me twice. Five years ago, I was more of a finesse fighter. I was willing to fight anybody, but at the same time I was timid of the bigger guys. I do not fear anybody anymore as far as taking their shot.

They kept coming in the third period and I thought we played timid around the puck and let them take it to us.

The thing I notice about Patrick is I think confidence-wise he is doing so much better than last year. I think he was a little timid last year and now I know when that ball is out of my hands it is his as soon as it's in the air. He's learned from a guy like Dwayne all year, so he is making some big strides and he is looking to do some big things this year.

I know. That's how good Joe was. In this environment, it's a big deal, and I've seen a lot of our guys go out there pretty timid at times. But there was nothing timid about Blanton. I thought he had really good stuff tonight, and he just went after guys with it.

I liked the way we bounced back against Delaware. I was more upset that we were sort of flat and intimidated by Marysville. It looked like we were wide-eyed. We didn't know what to do. Against Delaware we knew we were back on the track, but I thought we looked a bit timid against Marysville where we shouldn't have been.

I'm following the same footsteps. Now that I know what (the state meet) is like, it's going to be easier to get relaxed and get focused. Last year, since it was my first year at states, I was a little timid going out on the mat.

I have to admit, I was a little timid with it up there. I knew it was there and it was softer, but I am really trying not to bump draft. I've gotten myself into more trouble at plate tracks than I care to, so I'm just going to keep my bumper to myself.

Investors are still bullish about an improvement in corporate earnings. But the upcoming earnings season is making them timid about buying too much.

If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president.

Being in the majors for the first time was bigger than I expected. I think I took it in too much. I never threw my slider the way I wanted to. I was too timid with it. I didn't throw it with 100 percent conviction. I tried to make it too good. They told me there would be bumps in the road, but I didn't expect them to be mountains.

Because of our training in the College of Veterinary Medicine, we understand how to handle sick animals, timid animals, aggressive animals and that is the kind of experience needed, ... I'm imagining that most of the animals will be scared and dehydrated. Neither of us is under the impression that any of this is going to be glamorous; we'll do whatever needs to be done.

I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that I'm perhaps too timid to do in real life.

The credit belongs to those people who are actually in the arena...who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions to a worthy cause; who, at best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who,at worst, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

At the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat

The resolutions passed at the last meeting produced a great effect out of doors. Timid people took fright at the idea of a shot weighing 20,000 pounds being launched into space; they asked what cannon could ever transmit a sufficient velocity to such a mighty mass.

I'm a timid person-I was beaten up by Quakers

In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.