Fearful Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Hasan of Basra

  Forgiveness, Wisdom, Islamic

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Soul

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Writing, Destiny

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• I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices heard. A good teacher is one who can listen to those voices even before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Teaching, Voice

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.47, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Wendell Berry

  Long, Strange, Aliens

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• 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. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien.

  Wendell Berry

  Humility, Long, Generosity

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

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

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• The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Gold, Use

  "Berkshire’s Corporate Performance vs. the S&P 500". www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2012.

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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

  This Generation, Generations, Done

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• Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least as passionate, at least as mobilized and well-funded as the NRA and the gun manufacturers are because the politics in Congress are such where even members of Congress who know better are fearful if they vote their conscience and support common sense measures like background checks, they're worried they're going to lose.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Mass Shootings, People

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• 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.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Family, Marriage

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• When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Destiny, Long, People

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Powerful, Men, Law

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 163, 1973.

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• Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?

  Cate Blanchett

  Kids, Laughing, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Judi Dench

  Thinking, Energy, Use

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• The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Want, Scared, Feels

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• If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of.

  Mark Cuban

  Tattoo, Kids, Night

  "Did Dallas Mavericks Owner Drop The Ball On Sterling Controversy?". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 23, 2014.

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• 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

  Boys, Four, Sissy

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Thinking, Self

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wall, Healing, Past

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• 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.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Mad, Mind, Lasts

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• Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world’s most emotionally human land mammal.

  Daphne Sheldrick

  Animal, Land, Elephants

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• Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God trust Him more deeply than those whose complacent faith permits an abstract and motionless stance before Him. Those who trust God most are those whose faith permits them to risk wrestling with Him over the deepest questions of life. Good hearts are captured in a divine wrestling match; fearful, doubting hearts stay clear of the mat.

  Dan B. Allender

  Good Life, Hate, Heart

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• Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing with righteousness – as at the crucifixion and before and since. This can happen only after we have made a categorical refusal to kindness: to heretics, foreigners, enemies or any other group different from ourselves.

  Wendell Berry

  Religious, Kindness, Hatred

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• I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

  Martha Graham

  Dancer, Use, Way

  "Martha Graham Google Doodle Celebrates the Dancer and Choreographer's 117th Birthday" by Laura Roberts, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 11, 2011.

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