Dreaded Quotes

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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was… — Ethel Waters
I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for… — Bob Woodward
And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs,… — Lord Dunsany
This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew… — Milan Kundera
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing… — Edith Wharton
It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened… — William Faulkner
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had… — Zadie Smith
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest… — Herman Melville
In this family, we always celebrate each other's birthdays. I don't care if you're four or fourteen or forty and scattered around the world. We… — James Patterson
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as… — John Adams
Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldnâ€™t have to live with it anymoreâ€”the fear. There… — Francesca Lia Block
â€¦Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. — Louisa May Alcott
Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she… — Elizabeth Gaskell
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street… — Gavin de Becker
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved… — Adrienne Rich
Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn… — Ann Brashares
Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the exchange with David,… — Linda Howard
And there is the girl. When I first see her and her dun mare from my vantage point on the cliff road, I am struck… — Maggie Stiefvater
I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it. — Rachel Vincent

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