Fearsome Quotes

41 Fearsome quotes by 40 unique authors

Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your… — Boyd Rice
A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers… — Lorde
Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet… — Winston Churchill
Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver,… — Unknown Author
The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made… — Douglas Davis
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. — Sophocles
She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch. — Jack Prelutsky
I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you… — Kishore Kumar
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. — Jon Ronson
Writing is a fearsome but grand vocationâ€”potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldnâ€™t trade my life for the world. — Reynolds Price
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.… — Thomas Berry
Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the… — Phil Cousineau
If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984.… — Michael Parenti
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,… — Carol Birch
We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that. — James Earl Jones
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones… — Edward Hoagland
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people. — William J. Clinton
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew… — Barbara Kingsolver
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. — Abraham Maslow
I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. — Karl Rove

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