Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Back to the bad. Makes them mad. Say I won't . But you'll see it when I do. Don't have a clue?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You can’t dread what you can’t experience. The only death we experience is that of other people. That’s as bad as it… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse… — Laura Tillman Copy Share Image
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army.… — John Wimber Copy Share Image
The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from… — Joseph Chaikin Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“I don't want anything to happen to you. You being hurt...that thought fills me with dread. I can't promise not to interfere,… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines,… — Thomas Cooper Copy Share Image
“Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em. I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some. Imagine all the Hebrews… — E-40 Copy Share Image
More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump,… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same… — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell,… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full… — Rhett Miller Copy Share Image
So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence… — David Levithan Copy Share Image