We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.
When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know. "
You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.
She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, he’s a soccer player—fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game. I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
[Niccolò] Machiavelli said it's better to be feared than to be loved.
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an Americans.
Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?" The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine. " No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession. "I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
Our artillery. . . The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.