Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.    From LearnThat.org.  [Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)]

Whitewater rafting is not for the timid.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

So saying, he called the timid followers and delivered the body into their hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference

Elizabeth observed my agitation for some time in timid and fearful silence; at length she said, What is it that agitates you, my dear Victor?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

He has been called timid and passive by some Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009] Reference

MCKENZIE (voice-over): This is where a 13-year-old girl described as timid and barely able to swim found herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2009] Reference

She is described as a timid, shy and retiring young woman who also just happened to be able to out-ride and out-hunt the King and his men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

The OECD describes the recovery that we are seeing as "timid".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2009] Reference

“I have had it for a year,” said Julie, with a kind of timid anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman of Thirty] Reference

If not, some of our friends who have been kind of timid about Iraq will get the message.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2002] Reference

I was kind of timid to make this switch to be honest but I have had great fortune with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neck or behind the shoulder?] Reference

Danes, so long helpless; while to call his own men 'timid' would be befouling his own nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference

We have to deal with the situation in a humane manner but should not be 'timid' towards Naxalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naxals may target important facilities] Reference

African Union for what it called its "timid" reaction to the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The OSP was tasked with reviewing the work of 'timid' CIA analysts to see if they had 'missed' anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Sulzberger Hiding Judith Miller in Jail?] Reference

` ` We had a game plan to come out being aggressive and we were kind of timid '' in the first quarter, Pargo said.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Nowhere was this more obvious than in Mr. Bush's warning to governments that were 'timid' in the face of terrorism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool And Cooler] Reference

Treslove has only a "timid" awareness of his place in the universe "ringed by a barbed wire fence of rights and limits".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson] Reference

The party claimed in a statement that Sigcau was being "timid" and should adopt a more "radical and imaginative approach".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Edge of Evolution actually goes further and bolder than Darwin's Black Box, so I don't see why you say that he is "timid".    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe vs. Dawkins] Reference

We might also never know a lot of things about the cosmos and natural history, but admitting such is not "timid," it's scientific realism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

"The 'timid' speech really got us nervous," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Just ask the Clintons: are Obama and his people "timid"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and -- fluttery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

Are Congresspeople who defy their constituents 'anger "timid"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

"I have had it for a year," said Julie, with a kind of timid anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman of Thirty] Reference

"I don't admit that," said she, with an amusing kind of timid obstinacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conflict] Reference

Greek PM Papandreou calls EU response 'timid' photo: Department of Defense/R.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Financial News] Reference

Each seemed to be held back by a kind of timid shame and by a cautious suspicion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

Faith asked with a kind of timid doubt, as not knowing but his power might extend so far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference

Monday's nasty day in Australia was predictable, and may give the more cautious - or is the word 'timid' Glenn?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Thornton Blogs] Reference

Haven't figured out which program it was that started the loop, and kind of timid to put anything on it now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treo Forum - Treonauts] Reference

Brian Fuentes suggested that umpires had become too "timid" and "scared" to disappoint the sellout crowds in Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [SI.com] Reference

And he recalled the timid, piteous expression with which Anna had said to him at parting: "Anyway, you will see him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

"A girl scout simply can't be timid, that is a really, truly good as gold scout girl, and we all know you are exactly that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening] Reference

Bonnie Bell, if you'll believe me, was kind of timid and scared, with it being so long since any woman had said a kind word to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Next Door] Reference

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou criticized the European Union on Friday for being too "timid" and slow in its support for Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS] Reference