Feared Quotes

440 quotes by 358 authors

If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying. I am not the… — Forrest Griffin
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in… — Phineas Quimby
To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war that many feared… — Michael Mullen
Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared. — George W. Bush
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the… — Henri Nouwen
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared… — Miguel de Cervantes
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of… — Lajos Kossuth
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. — William Shakespeare
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. — Unknown Author
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared â€” this must some day become the highest maxim… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was,… — Lin Yutang
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual… — Francesco Guicciardini
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches… — Edna O'Brien
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars… — Jean Genet
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. — Carlos Fuentes
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and… — Tanith Lee
We would rather be feared than respected. — Al Davis
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage. — Vash Young
I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me. — Nadine Labaki

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