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It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
He was a man who adored women, and understood their wrath. In other words, he feared them.
— J.D. Robb
Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.
— Frank Herbert
My mother used to say that girls should be seen and not heard. I say we should be seen and feared.
— Kami Garcia
People feared what was different, and whoever was the most different would win the witch-hunt lottery.
— Dan Wells
I feared Fyte's obsession with Blood and his insanity more than death. As
— Jessica N. Watkins
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
— Thomas Jefferson
This was perhaps what you feared: to become inert in a body that still breathes, drinks, and feeds itself. To commit suicide in slow motion.
— Edouard Leve
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
— Susan Sontag
He seemed to study her. "I think I might surprise you." She feared that was definitely what might happen.
— B. J. Daniels
Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent.
— Amos Oz
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
— Joey Skaggs
Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I always feared finding myself thinking about all the things I could have done, about all the things I was so close to doing.
— Sambhav Ratnakar
A MAN FEARED
A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other. — Stephen Crane
A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other. — Stephen Crane
Death scared me because I feared nothingness. If I had been nothing before I was born, then I could imagine that I would be nothing once I died.
— Rachel Reiland
What cannot be understood by the human intellect need not be feared because it ultimately comes from God
— Devdutt Pattanaik
Safer to be feared than loved.
— Gillian Flynn
Amory usually liked men individually, yet feared them in crowds unless the crowd was around him.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.
— Publilius Syrus
A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
The world was different. The world feared touch.
— R.M. James
He began to understand why some people feared the dark so much. The sheer helplessness of not knowing what was right in front of you was terrifying.
— Matthew Reilly
With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we'd never work apart. The
— Ransom Riggs
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
— Seneca The Younger
Nothing is to be feared but fear.
— Francis Bacon
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
— Sun Tzu
Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.
— Stephen L. Richards
One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the loud voice young people who feared the elderly used.
— Angela Flournoy
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
— Adam Smith
The Lord God must be greatly feared!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.
— T.A. Uner
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
— Carol P. Christ
My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
The loneliness became more and more unbearable. I ached to be touched. I feared I was disappearing and I'd cease to exist if someone didn't touch me.
— Leslie Feinberg
Fangirl rage. It demands to be feared.
— Zechariah Barrett
Feud and one of the most feared men
— Louis L'Amour
I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again.
— Neal Stephenson
They fear you as I once feared you," he said. "As you once feared me. We are all someone's monster, Nina.
— Leigh Bardugo
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.
— T.E. Lawrence
By absorbing so many books he was trying to purge his own failure as a writer. It wasn't working, but he feared what would happen if he stopped.
— Chad Harbach
If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
— Barbara Sher
Few governmental institutions are more misunderstood and feared out of ignorance than the Federal Reserve Board.
— David Baldacci
He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.
— Alain De Botton
...she felt safe with Nicolo, and feared nothing.
— Mirella Sichirollo Patzer
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
— Maureen Dowd
We would rather be feared than respected.
— Al Davis
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
— Cornelius Nepos
Death of the righteous ... is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
— Billy Graham
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
— Marie Curie
I feared that if I let him, it would be the final push over a ledge I had been precariously hovering on since the day I had first laid eyes on him.
— Nicole R. Locker
I will live to make myself not feared.
— Catherine The Great
He wasn't alive because he feared death. He was alive because he loved life.
— Ingrid Betancourt
It is better to be feared than loved. - MACHIAVELLI
— Kate Quinn
An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.
— Jimmy Johnson
There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of.
— Annie Ali
It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The future might be dark, but darkness shared wasn't a thing to be feared.
It was to be embraced. — Heather R. Blair
It was to be embraced. — Heather R. Blair
I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.'
'Now you've lived to tell the tale. — Cameron Stracher
'Now you've lived to tell the tale. — Cameron Stracher
I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.
— Baruch Spinoza
He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.
— Damon Galgut
Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.
— Annie Dillard
Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday.
— Anthony Hopkins
At dusk a broken wheel appeared, Held by a hand I could not see, And I knew that someone I feared, Had discovered an empty room in me" ~ 1951
— Gavin Maxwell
Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
— Andrew Lang
Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. "Gradual reduction" of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk.
— Keshia Chante
The actual experience of the thing that was feared is a lot less scary than the person imagined.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. French Proverb
— Lawrence W. Gold
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
— Vash Young
Men feared witches and burned women.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
— Loren Eiseley
A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
— Kathleen Blanco
At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.
— Susan Vreeland
It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir," replied Porthos ... "and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face.
— Alexandre Dumas
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
— Plutarch
More cruelly: he feared her faith because, as a fully paid-up pessimist, he knew he had none.
— John Le Carre
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
— Henry Ford
Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.
— Carson McCullers
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
— David Perlmutter