Quotes about Fearful

Death is a fearful thing. Votes: 4

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Votes: 4

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Votes: 4

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. Votes: 4

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. Votes: 4

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other. Votes: 4

When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us. Votes: 4

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Votes: 4

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness. Votes: 3

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart. Votes: 3

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Votes: 3

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money. Votes: 3

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. Votes: 3

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Votes: 3

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities. Votes: 3

Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, "May we ever be united in love and hidden as long as this stone hides in deep waters. Votes: 3

Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that. Votes: 3

A fearful man is always hearing things. Votes: 2

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Votes: 2

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. Votes: 2

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength. Votes: 2

The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Votes: 2

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done. Votes: 2

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful? Votes: 2

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Votes: 2

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. Votes: 2

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. Votes: 2

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Votes: 2

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place. Votes: 2

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Votes: 2

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Votes: 2

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Votes: 2

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Votes: 2

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. Votes: 2

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later. Votes: 2

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle. Votes: 2

I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful. Votes: 2

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature. Votes: 2

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it. Votes: 2

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick. Votes: 2

If we're honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you don't believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, 'Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?' Votes: 2

One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends. Votes: 2

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe. Votes: 2

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. Votes: 2

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement. Votes: 2

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. Votes: 2

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before. Votes: 2

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. Votes: 2

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it. Votes: 2

I'm certainly not fearful. Votes: 0

Numbers are a fearful thing. Votes: 0

The fearful are the failing. Votes: 0

When you're fearful, you stumble. Votes: 0

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. Votes: 0

Opportunities energize the faithful and paralyze the fearful. Votes: 0

I was not a very fearful kid, really. Votes: 0

I would never be fearful of any character. Votes: 0

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation. Votes: 0

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish. Votes: 0

You want to be greedy when others are fearful. Votes: 0

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up. Votes: 0

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath. Votes: 0

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking. Votes: 0

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end. Votes: 0

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings. Votes: 0

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. Votes: 0

Without fear, you can walk much better in fearful places! Votes: 0

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be Votes: 0

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful. Votes: 0

You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter Votes: 0

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church Votes: 0

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage. Votes: 0

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing. Votes: 0

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt! Votes: 0

Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise. Votes: 0

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful. Votes: 0

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep. Votes: 0

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason. Votes: 0

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else. Votes: 0

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness. Votes: 0

Only your fearful and doubtful thoughts could defeat you in life. Votes: 0

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it. Votes: 0

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. Votes: 0

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown. Votes: 0

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one. Votes: 0

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Votes: 0

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn't a fearful person. Votes: 0

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear. Votes: 0

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway... Votes: 0

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved. Votes: 0

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty. Votes: 0

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away. Votes: 0

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. Votes: 0

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. Votes: 0

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful. Votes: 0

The fearful have lost faith while the fearless allow faith to lead the way. Votes: 0

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful. Votes: 0

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared. Votes: 0

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful. Votes: 0

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment. Votes: 0

Your fears in life are only as fearful as you constantly interpret them to be. Votes: 0

Do not be fearful. Be humble and feel blessed. You are always in God's Hands. Votes: 0

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads. Votes: 0

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him. Votes: 0

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate. Votes: 0

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change. Votes: 0

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers. Votes: 0

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one. Votes: 0

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve. Votes: 0

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. Votes: 0

As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom. Votes: 0

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible. Votes: 0

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state. Votes: 0

I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in being fearful. I'm not a good flyer, but that doesn't stop me. Votes: 0

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave. Votes: 0

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' Votes: 0

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. Votes: 0

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Votes: 0

Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace. Votes: 0

If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love. Votes: 0

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise. Votes: 0

When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world. Votes: 0

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. Votes: 0

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up, Votes: 0

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, Votes: 0

We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy. Votes: 0

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] Votes: 0

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Votes: 0

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away. Votes: 0

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny) Votes: 0

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth. Votes: 0

It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm. Votes: 0

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. Votes: 0

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. Votes: 0

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable. Votes: 0

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life. Votes: 0

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at. Votes: 0

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. Votes: 0

I'm 61 years old. I'm not that fearful of the future, period. I'm not going to see that much of it. Votes: 0

You are more powerful than any fearful force. Your Divine willingness can out-will any darkness that the world has ever seen. Votes: 0

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. Votes: 0

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves. Votes: 0

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian! Votes: 0

In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now. Votes: 0

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Votes: 0

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won Votes: 0

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me. Votes: 0

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president. Votes: 0

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. Votes: 0

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. Votes: 0

Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much ofwhat I love in that face. Votes: 0

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. Votes: 0

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. Votes: 0

Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty. Votes: 0

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe. Votes: 0

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack. Votes: 0

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. Votes: 0

My gut sense is there's something necessary going on and if I'm too fearful or angry, I feel like I'm feeding it. Votes: 0

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all. Votes: 0

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s. Votes: 0

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things. Votes: 0

I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being. Votes: 0

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies. Votes: 0

Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners... Votes: 0

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing. Votes: 0

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing. Votes: 0

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Votes: 0

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of. Votes: 0

Even in my age now, I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong Votes: 0

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. Votes: 0

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art. Votes: 0

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world. Votes: 0

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear. Votes: 0

I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in. Votes: 0

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful. Votes: 0

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be. Votes: 0

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on. Votes: 0

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched. Votes: 0

Dogs do know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing inside of you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances. Votes: 0

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. Votes: 0

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all. Votes: 0

Whenever you encounter any fearful situation, there exists a great possibility for you to triumph only if you be willing enough to conquer the fear. Votes: 0

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences. Votes: 0

Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home. Votes: 0

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. Votes: 0

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else. Votes: 0

I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers. Votes: 0

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. Votes: 0

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. Votes: 0

I'm not personally fearful, but I look out, and there are a number of things that concern me, and I'm hopeful that we can overcome them. Votes: 0

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful. Votes: 0

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was. Votes: 0

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world. Votes: 0

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions. Votes: 0

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. Votes: 0

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information. Votes: 0

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. Votes: 0

You can never be happy if you're trapped in the past and fearful of the future. Living in the present is the only way to be happy. Votes: 0

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value. Votes: 0

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone. Votes: 0

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject. Votes: 0

Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary. Votes: 0

The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant." Votes: 0

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. Votes: 0

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach. Votes: 0

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary. Votes: 0

Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd;Religions need fearful followers;Systems need obedient slaves;Corporate world needs compulsive consumers,andI NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES. Votes: 0

Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh. Votes: 0

The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute. Votes: 0

I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again. Votes: 0

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ violence in ways that make people quite fearful. Votes: 0

I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash. Votes: 0

I never cared, I was careless, Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless. Or fear bein' fearless but fearful, So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful. Votes: 0

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave. Votes: 0

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. Votes: 0

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while. Votes: 0

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. Votes: 0

I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies. Votes: 0

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight. Votes: 0

If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all! Votes: 0

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. Votes: 0

Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit.” Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement. Votes: 0

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. Votes: 0

When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate. Votes: 0

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest. Votes: 0

I'm always fearful. "¦ Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol. Votes: 0

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production. Votes: 0

At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer. Votes: 0

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate. Votes: 0

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good. Votes: 0

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's no need to be fearful when another person succeeds. In fact, joining forces and supporting fellow teachers (or co-workers) you believe in is one of the most empowering moves you can make. Votes: 0

You can't speak freely and openly on the most important issue of the day because you're fearful that your closet is going to come and haunt you. I choose to air my closet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...we named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying. Votes: 0

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. Votes: 0

If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available. Votes: 0

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control. Votes: 0

Fear is the root of all evil. Better live a single day fearlessly than living a long but fearful life. Especially, never fear another human being. Fear is the root of all relationship problems. Votes: 0

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it. Votes: 0

In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful, toward other cultures. Votes: 0

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe. Votes: 0

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion - you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That's how life is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Votes: 0

And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming,so that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding,Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star. Votes: 0

One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. Votes: 0

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you! Votes: 0

You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs. Votes: 0

Senator Obama's message of hope is not just for America's future, it is also a message of hope for the world as well. A world which is now in many respects fearful for its future. Votes: 0

If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too. Votes: 0

I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad Votes: 0

Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles. Votes: 0