What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away… — John Howe Copy Share Image
And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread. — Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr Copy Share Image
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. — James Herbert Copy Share Image
...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the… — Isabella Thoburn Copy Share Image
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no… — William James Copy Share Image
A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image