Quotes of: Fearsome Keyword

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

John C. Hawkes

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

A Clash of Kings

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

The Mark of Athena

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

Karl Rove

There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

Luigi: We shall call him... Zatarra. Edmond: Sounds fearsome. Luigi: It means, "driftwood."

The Count of Monte Cristo

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

Sophocles

On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

J. G. Ballard

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

Burning Bridges

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

Edward Hoagland

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Barbara Kingsolver

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?' ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

Rose George

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the ...

Greg MacGillivray

Mr. Darcy: Are you so severe on your own sex? Elizabeth Bennet: I never saw such a woman. She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold.

Pride & Prejudice

Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster. To these the rewilders quietly voiced a sad and stinging reply. The most dangerous experiment is already ...

Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, the...

The Pale King

There's nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration, is the betrayal that you don't see, hidden within th...

Lionel Suggs