Feared Quotes

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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

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.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

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.

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

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.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

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.

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

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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

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.