Feared Quotes
440 quotes by 358 authors
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I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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It was accountability that Nixon feared.
— Bob Woodward
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is…
— William Wordsworth
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If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters…
— Michael Ende
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it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had…
— Edith Wharton
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A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the…
— Stephen Crane
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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that…
— Henry James
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I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to…
— Jodi Picoult
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The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever…
— Thomas Wolfe
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He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood…
— T.E. Lawrence
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And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath…
— Vikram Chandra
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at…
— Alexandre Dumas
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There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was…
— Albert Camus
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To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo…
— Brigham Young
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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.
— Dante Alighieri
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It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left…
— D. H. Lawrence
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You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
— Steven Pressfield
Who Wrote These Feared Quotes
358 authors contributed a total of 440 Feared Quotes, led by these top contributors: