Feared Quotes

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

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

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.