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Quotes About Fearful

There is a line. It's etched from dignity. And raging, fearful people from the right and left are crossing it at unprecedented rates every single day. We must never tolerate dehumanization—the primary instrument of violence that has been used in every genocide recorded throughout history.
~ Brene Brown
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
~ Herman Melville
Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
~ Robert Crumb
The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The first thing I often did with fearful dogs like Solo drew laughs from the other trainers. I'd walk into the dog's kennel with a book, sit down, and read aloud.
~ Steve Duno
I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.
~ Jenny Lewis
We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.
~ Cornel West
Wiley's behavior had lately become so odd that younger reporters who once sought his counsel were now fearful of his ravings, and they avoided him.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I love writing novels, but I'm very fearful about writing something from absolute scratch. I kind of don't have the time to write something from scratch. I think when my knees completely give out, and I can't make films anymore, I would try to write novels from scratch.
~ Whit Stillman
I'd rather be fearless and criticized than fearful and approved of. That's the bloody choice sometimes.
~ Karen Marie Moning
But, nevertheless, if there is even the slightest recognition, liberation is easy. Should you ask why this is so—it is because once the awesome, terrifying and fearful appearances arise, the awareness does not have the luxury of distraction. The awareness is one-pointedly concentrated.
~ Karma-glin-pa
Kagan feels that in his own way, he has proven Jung right. He's found that 10 to 15 percent of infants are born with a tendency to be fearful and withdrawn, while another 10 to 15 percent are born with a flair for dauntless spontaneity
~ Howard Bloom
And foe-of-convenience, the United States, barely the hope of the world, guilty of torture, helpless before its sacred text conceived in an age of powdered wigs, a constitution as unchallengeable as the Koran. Its nervous population obese, fearful, tormented by inarticulate anger, contemptuous of governance, murdering sleep with every new handgun. Africa
~ Ian Mcewan
Even the beasts succumb to such aggression. Killers among your kind, among my kind, are just that – the savagery of beasts mated with intelligence, or what passes for intelligence. They dwell in a murky world, sir, confused and fearful, stained dark with envy and malice. And in the end, they die as they lived. Frightened and alone, with every memory of power revealed as illusion, as farce.
~ Steven Erikson
A large part of her enjoyed the fearful excitement of being alone with this strange, powerful woman who could possibly be very dangerous. Wonder and fear: an intoxicating cocktail for someone who spent so much time alone.
~ Storm Constantine
I loved her so much, she was so beautiful in life, it seemed unbelievably cruel that I had to become afraid of her. I would wake screaming just as Ellony stooped over me in bed. She had cold saliva that smelled of fish. It fell onto my face.
~ Storm Constantine
I was a nervous kid, not great socially.
~ Richard Madden
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.
~ John B. Hood
No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.
~ Robert Zemeckis
I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence
~ Miguel Torres
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
~ George Washington
Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
if death is so fearful then life must be good? dandy then, babe, genuinely traginew, and I've found out why men sign their names to their works— not that they created them but more than the others did not.
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't like modernity. I don't have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can't drive a car.
~ Lea Seydoux