Fraught Quotes
80 quotes by 71 authors
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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
— Jane Addams
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If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental…
— Gail Sheehy
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This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.
— David O. McKay
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I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you…
— Kyra Sedgwick
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Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long…
— Laini Taylor
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a…
— Alexander Pope
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The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!
— Stephen Sondheim
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For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone…
— Ben Marcus
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Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never…
— Thomas a Kempis
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I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school…
— Naveen Andrews
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I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and…
— Vince Cable
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If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with…
— Brian Tracy
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I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and…
— Paul Giamatti
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Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also…
— Richard Blumenthal
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of…
— Tony Abbott
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Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever…
— Stephanie Mills
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Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament…
— Willard Fiske
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Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move…
— Willard Fiske
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