Quotes About Dreaded

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

Jeff is in the line of unillegal graft. He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans; he is a reducer of surplusage.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

What is it? she pleaded softly. He lay perfectly still, only his eyes alive, and they full of torment. You know, he said at length, rather wearily, you know - we'd better break off. I was what she dreaded. Swiftly, everything seemed to darken before her eyes.

Will universal health coverage lead the country (USA) down the slippery path to the dreaded European-style socialism?

though every glance convinced her of what she dreaded; for though he was not always looking at her mother, she was convinced that his attention was invariably fixed by her. The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity.

It has been my experience that immediately after certain traumatic separations—leaving one's family to go to war, for instance, or upon the death of a family member, or after parting from one's beloved with no assurances of reunion—there is a strange calmness, almost a sense of relief, as if the worst has happened and nothing else need be dreaded.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

The dreaded November 18, 2048, at around 2:47 PM Eastern Time, plus or minus a few minutes, is when we go Boom.

We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted.

The major part of the meeting had been devoted to allocating resources to the various investigative tasks, the first of which was to get almost everyone on the job of identifying the dead girl. The dead girl. Fabel was steadfastly committed to uncovering her identity, but it was that moment he dreaded most: when the body became a person and the case number became a name.

What if everything she most dreaded was happening now?

Every farthing of the cost,All the dreaded cards foretell,Shall be paid, but from this nightNot a whisper, not a thought,Not a kiss nor look be lost.

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

There will be hundreds of sons making the same journey,' he says. 'All of us riding with broken hearts, all of us thinking of vengeance. This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.

And it was that, the beyond-grief, the sealing-up of a mind still expected to produce order and plans, which she dreaded.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

No less than my grandmother, she dreaded these invasions of strangers, and, in her fear of being too late to escape if she let herself be seen, would fly from the room with a rapidity which always made my father and me laugh at her.

And this, Magozzi thought, was the dreaded black place. The desperate place where people always went when anger and fear couldn't find any other answer, the place that obliterated logic and compassion and reason and all the other higher functions of the human mind that civilization had fostered.