But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift.
I don't think she had caught the name of the bank, and in my nervous cowardice I was anxious that she should not; and so I began admiring the yellow-spotted lilac gown that I had been utterly condemning only a minute before.
" Only the difference between truth and lied, courage and cowardice, " said Professor McGonagall, who had turned pale, " a difference, in short, which you and your sister seem unable to appreciate. "
For, all the three years, he had carefully avoided her in consequence of that natural cowardice that characterises the stronger sex. Emma went on, with dainty little nods, more coaxing than an amorous kitten
What Melanie said was no more than Scarlett had been thinking but hearing it put into words infuriated her, shamed her as if her secret cowardice was written plainly in her face.
He went to the Front to fight, and as for his so-called cowardice...that were like a wound in battle, a wound to his brain, so he didn't know what he was doing.
He described it as an act of cowardice. He was serving his fourth combat deployment in Kandahar province when in the middle of the night, he attacked two villages.
Macron, who has called the attack an " act of absolute cowardice, " visited the hospital in nearby Grenoble where three of the four children are being treated.
There's a short poem called The Centipede's Dilemma, often attributed to Katherine Craster, that shows the relationship between overthinking and cowardice.