Dreaded Quotes
101 quotes by 92 authors
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Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing,…
— Michael A. Ledeen
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Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness…
— Sigmund Freud
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I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations…
— Steve Saint
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From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
— Benjamin Rush
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The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one…
— William Arnot
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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves…
— Mark Twain
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Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that…
— Khalil Gibran
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There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or…
— Carl Jung
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There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.
— Eugene Sue
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which…
— A. N. Wilson
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For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast…
— David Zindell
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If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments…
— Maya Angelou
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Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to go in to…
— Frank Bettger
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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
— Publilius Syrus
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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of…
— Maya Angelou
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Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they…
— John Foxe
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I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches…
— Abd-ar-Rahman III
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