Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

Let me die facing the enemy ... A man who fights against his country deserves pity more than I.

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

I never cared who I was going to fight because, at the end of the day, it makes no difference.

Most cops are not looking for understanding. They work in a world filled with a sense - real or imagined - of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway. Most cops are merely looking for respect.

I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear... But there is a chance that something... will talk to me from the dark, so I have... to be prepared for that communication, which has happened.

I was, like, talking to these kids, and I look up, and there was, like, 25 cameras around me. And I ran. I ran away. I, like, straight up ran away, and I was so scared, and then, like, it happened, and after I was done, it kinda sunk in.

I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!