Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now. "
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.
I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Must one dread what others dread?
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.
I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, I walk in a battle fought over again.
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.