Tremble Quotes

186 quotes by 160 authors

They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law. — Charles Spurgeon
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts… — Willem de Kooning
With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails… — Octavio Paz
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble. — James F. Cooper
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble… — Mahatma Gandhi
When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works. — Jude Bijou
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. — Marya Mannes
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes. — Denis Diderot
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face… — Symeon the New Theologian
Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than… — Charles Spurgeon
This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we… — Angela of Foligno
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for… — William Cowper
Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling… — Paul Gauguin
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. — Charles Churchill
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. — Denis Diderot
Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when… — Eugene Delacroix
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. — Jacques Delille
Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to… — David Letterman

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