Fearful Quotes

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might--Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.

If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

Fear and caution are two different things. Be cautious - be conscious - but do not be fearful. Fear only paralyzes, while consciousness mobilizes. Be mobilized, not paralyzed.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

Death is a fearful thing.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

Opportunities energize the faithful and paralyze the fearful.

Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

I was excited to explore and see the world. I'd been traveling since I was 6 months old, so I was never fearful of getting on a plane and going somewhere - even America.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.