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Tag Name "Fearful" (306)

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Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.
William Shakespeare
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
Judy Blume
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We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.
Al Gore
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We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.
Willie Aames
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A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominableYet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.
Theodore Roethke
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
Aristotle
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The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.
Winston Churchill
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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.
Adrienne Clarkson
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It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.
Pierre Bayle
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
Michel de Montaigne
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln
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Be ye a refuge to the fearful bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed make ye a provision for the destitute be a treasury of riches for the poor be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.
John Steinbeck
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God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.
Joyce Meyer
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
Fulton J. Sheen
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
Maya Angelou
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The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.
Radclyffe Hall
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It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
Pema Chodron
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Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.
Neil Young
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O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
Walt Whitman
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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
Bertrand Russell
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Xunzi
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As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
Julius Caesar
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