Fearsome Quotes

41 quotes by 41 authors

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at… — Alexandre Dumas
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the… — Lisa Ann Sandell
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church… — Thomas Merton
Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?"… — Libba Bray
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard… — Harold Pinter
See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in… — Stephen King
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,… — David Foster Wallace
You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes… — Becca Fitzpatrick
The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome. — George R. R. Martin
Am I not a fearsome enemy?" "You frighten me primally. — Kevin Hearne
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know… — Terry Pratchett
The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real… — Jodi Picoult
The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus — Rick Riordan
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador… — Jasper Fforde
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most… — Howard Zinn
The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome… — R C Sproul
Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX… — Greg MacGillivray
I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? Fear. Fearsome acts. A man steals from me, I cut off his… — BILL THE BUTCHER
Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome. — Mayma
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then. — John Hawkes

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