Trembling Quotes - Page 8

• It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Mistake, Mean

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.

  James Ellis

  Angel, Men, And Love

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• In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.

  Nikolai Leskov

  Character, Years, Sometimes

  Nikolai Leskov (2013). “The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories”, p.3, Vintage

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Butterfly, Eye

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• Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them to catch me and beat me. Why did I want to be punished? Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down. I open my mouth to scream, but I am voiceless. My hands are trembling, I feel cold, and there is a distant humming in my ears.

  Daniel Keyes

  Mother, Past, Hands

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Rope

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.22, e-artnow

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• Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.

  Gunvor Hofmo

  Stars, Moving, Eye

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• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

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• It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

  Socrates

  Courage, Mistake, Spirit

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• I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

  Mark Twain

  Two, Forever, Literature

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 31 (1884)

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• I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Halloween, Distance, Dark

  Song: All Souls Night

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• Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Causes, Paralysis

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• When I heard Jonathan [Cole's agent] repeat the figure of £55k-a-week, I nearly swerved off the road. 'He is taking the p**s, Jonathan!' I yelled down the phone. I was so incensed. I was trembling with anger. I couldn't believe what I'd heard.

  Ashley Cole

  Believe, Phones, Agents

  "A man of our times" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2006.

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• How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Rocks, Fog

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.

  Mas Oyama

  Regret, Effort, Needs

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• If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Emotion, Wonder

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• A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

  Walter Lippmann

  Country, Depressing, Mean

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

  William Blake

  God, Calling, Helping

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Lips

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.302, Harvard University Press

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• So when the world knocks at your front door,
  clutch the knob and open on up,
  running forward into its widespread greeting arms
  with your hands before you,
  fingertips trembling though they may be.

  Anis Mojgani

  Running, Doors, Hands

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• Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Beautiful, Mother, Men

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• Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Loneliness, Heart

  Octavius Winslow (1860). “Divine Realities; or, spiritual reflections for the saint and sinner”, p.19

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• When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are troops of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Believe, Angel, Men

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• To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Giving, Goal

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 06, 2014

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• The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Animal, Clouds

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.42, Wilderness Adventures Press

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