Fearful Quotes
430 Fearful quotes by 360 unique authors
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To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that…
— Nicole Holofcener
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The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see…
— Virginia Postrel
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My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
— Jackie Speier
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You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a…
— Rosamund Pike
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One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.
— Theo Van Gogh
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Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller
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We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles…
— Patricia Sun
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In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared…
— Henry Mayhew
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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our…
— Bernhard von Bulow
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I was not a very fearful kid, really.
— Clive Owen
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I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.
— Rene Russo
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One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are…
— Eric Schlosser
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The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign to…
— George Bataille
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should…
— George Washington
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Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man…
— Unknown Author
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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
— Epictetus
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Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself
— Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue
— Jeremy Taylor
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'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in…
— Lord Byron
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in…
— Robert Francis Kennedy
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What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.
— Matthew Ashford
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Dont look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and say, Why not? When it comes to your dreams and goals, be too positive to be…
— Coldheart
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Far too many people are fearful of the unknown, comfy with putting in the least amount of effort, and not willing to put up with…
— Melchor Lim
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I have loved the stars to fondly to ever be fearful of the night.
— Galileo Galilei
Who Wrote These Fearful Quotes
360 authors contributed a total of 430 Fearful Quotes, led by these top contributors: