Quotes Tagged "feared"

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.