Quotes About Feared

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

With us, when you speak of 'the river,' though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

My soul is full of whispered song; My blindness is my sight; The shadows that I feared so long Are all alive with light.

In an instant, she comprehended two things: why immortals feared the Lykae. And that she was this one's mate. "Protect you.

All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.

The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's view. So poets have always been feared - and controlled and jailed.

Deveels are some of the meanest characters you'd ever not want to tangle with. They're some of the most feared and respected characters in the dimensions." "Are they warriors? Mercenaries?" Aahz shook his head. "Worse!" he answered. "They're merchants.

Although the show-off comets in the inner solar system are impressive, it is the far more numerous asteroids in the Earth's neighborhood that should have been feared as they represent the most frequent threats to Earth.

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

Greed is an appetite that looks largely to some imagined or feared future.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

Those women who could read were revered and feared, for they were the most skilled in love magic.

Library events scare me, as they provide refuge for local historians, fabulists, tellers of tall tales, historical reenactors, and even dream weavers. Not to mention the single most feared creature on the planet: the self-published poet

The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

In other words, our destiny is to become the gods that we once feared and worshipped. Science will give us the means by which we can shape the universe in our image.

Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle.