Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all. . . Europe will no longer be Europe.
It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.
At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
Must one dread what others dread?
It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most. . . . It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
Hollywood. . . a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.