Dreadful Quotes
340 quotes by 271 authors
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It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and…
— Joseph Addison
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
— Gautama Buddha
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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they…
— John Henry Newman
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When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to…
— Alberto Villoldo
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It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.
— Emmanuelle Riva
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When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their…
— Peggy Noonan
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O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the…
— Thomas Boston
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Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high,…
— Cressida Cowell
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To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever…
— Ray Bradbury
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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
— Oprah Winfrey
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It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.
— Glenn Morrison
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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
— Major Taylor
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
— Major Taylor
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While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a…
— M. Scott Peck
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I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each…
— Nhat Hanh
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by…
— Germaine Greer
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To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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