Feared Quotes

440 quotes by 358 authors

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most… — John McCain
As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished… — Rod Dreher
Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure.… — Dan Millman
There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared future, there is a predictable future, and there is an… — Werner Erhard
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed,… — Klemens von Metternich
Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust… — Jeanne Achterberg
I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea… — Tim Winton
This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit. — Plato
Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a… — John Climacus
There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social institutions… — Paula Gunn Allen
Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes. — Dee Hock
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing,… — J C Ryle
For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power… — Audre Lorde
Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one. — Hugh Downs
Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked… — Stephen L. Richards
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative]. — Peter Kreeft
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order.… — Kamisese Mara
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit… — Richard P. Feynman

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