“You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.”
“Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.”
“He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.”
“It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)”
“You... don't have the spine!" he hissed with morbid, sadistic amusement.Unfortunately for him, it was mercy that I lacked, not a spine. I raised my swords high overhead. He stopped laughing when I had finished hacking off his head.”
“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”