#timid

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#criticism #criticize #democracy #destructive #freedom

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it? ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#america #ask #attack #backgrounds #distort

It's always intimidating to meet an icon. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#icon #intimidating #meet

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. ↗

— Barack Obama

#compass #deadly #direction #engaged #exercising

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ↗

— Jean Paul

#courageous #coward #danger #during #frightened

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#bravery #contagious #like #timidity

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#attract #average #average person #because #critics

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#art #art world #artists #because #catch

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#big screen #i #intimidated #keep #kind

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#being #books #campuses #come #ever