Trembling Quotes

244 Trembling quotes by 191 unique authors

Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is… — Robert Kiyosaki
I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell… — Jo Nesbo
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile… — David Gemmell
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But… — J. Robert Lennon
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as… — David Dark
And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I… — Katharine Hepburn
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has… — Richard Le Gallienne
Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending… — Ugo Betti
Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands… — Janet Malcolm
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. — Emile M. Cioran
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling… — William Herschel
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. — H. L. Mencken
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows… — Anton Chekhov
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. — Unknown Author
Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining. — Robert Burns
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red...… — Edvard Munch
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,… — Alexander Pope
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds… — Homer
We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns… — Robert R. McCammon
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about.… — Pierre-Jean de Beranger
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson

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