Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 358 authors

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone,… — John Battelle
I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread… — Kid Nichols
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can… — Martha Beck
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the… — John James Audubon
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and… — Jules Verne
I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you… — Ernie Els
I never dread going back to Congress. — Nancy Pelosi
The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable… — Lee Siegel
Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one. — Laurie Graham
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I… — Robert Webb
The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. — Cyril Connolly
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or… — Frank Crane
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and… — John Howe
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. — Thomas Ken
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread… — William Tecumseh Sherman
I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to… — Yanni
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East -… — Karen Armstrong
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the… — George Bernard Shaw
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. — Samuel Johnson
Real love, I've learned, is a very, very strong form of forgiveness. I don't think people yearn for love because they hate staying home alone… — Don Williams Jr

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