Fearful Quotes

430 Fearful quotes by 360 unique authors

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it… — Joseph Stalin
They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. — Thomas Gray
The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away. They… — John Kennedy Toole
Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances. — Jane Jacobs
We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy. — Rand Paul
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither… — Margaret Cavendish
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message:… — Jonathan Franzen
If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made… — Deborah Feldman
A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one. — Glenn Greenwald
Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. — Pema Chodron
There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable… — Tahir Shah
What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She… — Mary Lawson
I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually… — Melissa Etheridge
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. — Dario Argento
No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end. — Bill Gurley
Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany… — Douglas Hurd
The fearful are caught as often as the bold. — Helen Keller
Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing. — Friedrich Schiller
When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW… — John Updike
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally… — Ivan Illich
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
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking… — Lance Armstrong
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New… — Charles Sturt
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine… — Rebecca Solnit

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