Best Fearing Words
183 Fearing quotes by 150 unique authors
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I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of…
— Clarence Thomas
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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to…
— Lewis Thomas
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
— Ricky Williams
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take…
— John Woolman
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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and…
— Jane Austen
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We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal…
— Dave Eggers
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There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are…
— Bruno Schulz
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Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free…
— Marcus Aurelius
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
— William Shakespeare
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death…
— Tao Lin
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One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
— Robin Hobb
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Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash…
— Anais Nin
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I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang…
— Emily Dickinson
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was…
— Khaled Hosseini
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
— Maya Angelou
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I so love the smell of hatred and revenge. It’s the headiest of concoctions. (Noir) I personally feel that way toward blood. No better smell…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention?…
— Eckhart Tolle
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There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing…
— David Levithan
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WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad…
— Pema Chodron
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Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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The way she told it, she was such a criminal even the most God-fearing church ladies got bored of reporting on her; she did the…
— Kami Garcia
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