Fraught Quotes

80 quotes by 71 authors

Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all… — Joan Didion
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our… — Jeffrey Kluger
The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal.… — Christopher Meloni
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. — John Kennedy Toole
You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many… — Larry David
But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of… — Joshua Chamberlain
Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being… — Katie Couric
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. — Winston Churchill
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught… — David Sheff
Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes… — David Foster Wallace
fraught, adj. Does every â€œI love youâ€ deserve an â€œI love you tooâ€? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to… — David Levithan
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. — China Mieville
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. — Allan Frewin Jones
The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get… — John Green
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less… — Judith Butler
He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was… — Julia Quinn
I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his… — John Green

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