Fearful Quotes

430 Fearful quotes by 360 unique authors

Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing… — Wendell Berry
I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it… — Martha Graham
Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt… — Herman Melville
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won — Walt Whitman
The fearful are the failing. — Sarah Josepha Hale
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show… — Walter Scott
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and… — Gautama Buddha
Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist.… — Eva Paterson
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future.… — Gerald Jampolsky
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way,… — Teresa of Avila
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,… — William Kittredge
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home. — Glenda Millard
History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A… — Glenn Greenwald
Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand… — Caitlin Thomas
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept… — George Gerbner
Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. — Tony Robbins
I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through… — Zachary Quinto
Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep. — Thomas Haynes Bayly
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full… — Doris Grumbach
A fearful man is always hearing things. — Sophocles
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear… — Glenn Greenwald
The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it… — Nicholas Murray Butler
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done. — Walt Whitman
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility… — Hector Berlioz
Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic… — Marc Ian Barasch

Who Wrote These Fearful Quotes

360 authors contributed a total of 430 Fearful Quotes, led by these top contributors: