Top 100 Fearsome Quotes
#1. It struck at the root of intentions, not at the flower.
And both root and the flower were important to him, one having to do with what one meant to do ... and the other, most fearsome, with the outcome of it.
C.J. Cherryh
#2. I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
John C. Hawkes
#3. The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path - any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation.
Robert Greene
#4. Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, 'cause fewer men have it.
Joe Abercrombie
#6. There's a fearsome creature that no man can ever hope to vanquish: the neurotic Bridezilla.
Loretta Lost
#7. A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor.
Aleksandra Layland
#8. I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here
Kishore Kumar
#9. Only humans can hurt one another, Ada thought; only humans falter and betray one another with a stunning, fearsome frequency. As David's family had done to him; as David had done to her. And Ada would do it too. She would fail other people throughout her life, inevitably, even those she loved best.
Liz Moore
#10. We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
Bill Moyers
#11. We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that.
Christopher Paolini
#12. A fearsome reputation will someday mean less of this bullshit. People and things will get so they won't dare mess with me. Crazy violent sociopaths get left alone. Or locked up. I nodded. Yeah, that's the down side.
Morgan Blayde
#13. Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.
Gerry Spence
#14. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
Henry Miller
#15. Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your head on the end of a stick is a strong incentive toward 'visualizing world peace'.
Boyd Rice
#16. Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.
Laura Tillman
#17. But the most wonderful thing of all, our highest achievement and the one thing for which I pray we will always be remembered, is stuffing wads of polyester into an anatomically incorrect, cartoonish ideal of one of nature's most fearsome predators for no other reason than to soothe a child.
Rick Yancey
#18. He flipped up his middle finger. "I don't care. I can't handle this. My game is talk. You tried to take that away." He shot an arm towards Mason. "He fights. I talk. That's the magic of our twosome fearsome.
Tijan
#19. Grandma Singer was a fearsome creature. If we ever did have a war under my rule, my plan was to send her to the front lines. She'd come home holding the enemy by his ear within a week.
Kiera Cass
#20. This, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins.
Orhan Pamuk
#21. Shiva! The Mahadev. The God of Gods. Destroyer of Evil. Passionate lover. Fierce warrior. Consummate dancer. Charismatic leader. All-powerful, yet incorruptible. A quick wit, accompanied by an equally quick and fearsome temper.
Amish Tripathi
#22. We need a new name since Nate is more in the fold. Are we back to the foursome fearsome?
Tijan
#23. Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
Kay Boyle
#24. The future, at once hopeful and fearsome, does not possess the ability to prophesy the final word. That future day will come, and when it does, Now and Not Yet will be waiting there with open arms, cheering me on.
Robin Zaruba
#25. We Venusians are sturdier than that. One can't even become part of the Protectorate until we've survived, naked and unarmed, in the harshest jungles of Venus. Only after a warrior crawls into civilization wearing the pelt of the fearsome screeching five-horned fiend do they pass the test.
A. Lee Martinez
#26. There were few signs of her people in the galaxy these days other than the notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett, who wore Mandalorian armor. His captures and kills had only helped spread the legend that the Mandalorians were the most fearsome warriors in the galaxy.
Michael Kogge
#27. In conquering the fearsome beasts, the conquerors had unwittingly orphaned themselves.
William Stolzenburg
#28. When guys in camouflage pants and hunting hats sat around in the Four Aces Diner talking about fearsome things done out-of-doors, I would no longer have to feel like such a cupcake.
Bill Bryson
#29. ( ... ) we must learn to accept that all creatures, however fearsome they may be, are of divine
origin.
Colleen Houck
#30. I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard ... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.
James Roday
#31. It can be a fearsome weapon, patience. One that few men ever learn to use.
Joe Abercrombie
#32. It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
Hannah Arendt
#33. and Ravn recited a long poem about some ancient hero who killed a monster and then the monster's mother who was even more fearsome than her son, but I was too drunk to remember much of it. And
Bernard Cornwell
#34. [ ... ] a time when anarchists were truly fearsome - less because they were willing to put a brick through a Starbucks window than because they had figured out how to organize themselves in a functional, egalitarian, and sufficiently productive society.
Noam Chomsky
#35. 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
#36. I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
Karl Rove
#37. There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep, said de Marsay.
Honore De Balzac
#38. Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
Jon Ronson
#39. It is hard to describe to you but I swear it was a fearsome sight. There were not eyes to speak of, but chasms that saw into its dark depths. A shade of a mouth full with phantom teeth. There seemed to be a skull shifting in and out of form beneath the black. Bound together by an unspeakable evil.
Solange Nicole
#40. 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
#41. Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.
Nadege Richards
#42. Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows.
Carl Sagan
#43. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui - these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.
David Foster Wallace
#44. I picked up the statue and looked at it from different angles. The eight arms were fearsome. Note to self: in a battle against Durga, run the other direction.
Colleen Houck
#45. In another show of America's force to the world, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Carter responded by boycotting the Olympics. And thus was a fearsome blow struck at little fourteen-year-old American girls who had spent their lives training for the Olympics.
Ann Coulter
#46. The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.
R.C. Sproul
#47. We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham Maslow
#49. A properly trained lybrarian is one of the most fearless and fearsome beings in the world!
Jen Swann Downey
#50. Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
Jasper Fforde
#51. See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.
Stephen King
#52. The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.
Vikram Chandra
#53. Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.
Cory Booker
#54. FORGIVE OR NOT, AS YOU WILL, AND KNOW ALWAYS THAT YOU ARE A HURRICANE IN THE BODY OF A GIRL, GLORIOUS AND FEARSOME AND WONDERFUL AND CAPABLE OF ANYTHING.
Seanan McGuire
#55. The naked statement - a black man has been killed by a white policeman - is such a fearsome divider of the races that the people who preside over a city immediately try to cover it with details.
Calvin Trillin
#56. 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 cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.
Greg MacGillivray
#57. In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Alexandre Dumas
#58. It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
Larry McMurtry
#59. The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.
Jodi Picoult
#60. Alpha of the Vltava Pack. Been around since the Middle fucking Ages. Apparently a baker-of all the sodding things for a fearsome Alpha to be. We are glad we don't have to tell people our Alpha is a motherehumping baker.
Patricia Briggs
#61. My other hand?' Lopen said. 'The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would want to know, so you can prepare to be insulted.
Brandon Sanderson
#62. And he wonders if he has a space in his brain or in his soul for monsters and demons, or if he will, like most people, choose insanity when confronted with a fearsome reality.
Christopher Rice
#63. To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
Sophocles
#64. 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 the white void of truth.
Lionel Suggs
#65. Am I not a fearsome enemy?"
"You frighten me primally.
Kevin Hearne
#67. A lord who knows how to wield men is ten times more fearsome than one who knows only how to wield a sword.
Ken Liu
#68. I have several people among my acquaintances who might be described as 'fearsome rogues.' Did he give a name?
Pamela Belle
#69. Andrea's breath hurt, but wit her fear came rage, a killing anger. They'd taken her mate A female defending her mate was the most fearsome of Shifters, and whoever had done this to Sean didn't yet know the meaning of terror.
Jennifer Ashley
#70. We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.
James Earl Jones
#71. Fearsome Beasts and Strange Creatures Wonders in Paper and Mist
Erin Morgenstern
#72. A man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet.
John Barth
#73. Humanity badly needs things that are big and fearsome and homicidally wild. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we need to preserve those few remaining beasts, places, and forces of nature capable of murdering us with sublime indifference.
David Quammen
#74. The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!
-Bacchus
Rick Riordan
#75. There was something severed and rough about her, something tainted and, yet, at the same time those jagged pieces were the makings of something fearsome. She'd wanted to become someone the Senate would fear, why not shatter the sky?
Elise Kova
#76. Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu:
All our dream-worlds may come true.
Fairy lands are fearsome too.
As I wander far from view
Read, and bring me home to you.
Salman Rushdie
#77. The ethical decision is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences afraid that even the honorable choice could result in harm or loss or sorrow that's when ethics are involved.
Henry W. Bloch
#78. 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
#79. 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?".
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#80. Wow," said George. "I imagined the demon realms were fearsome and terrifying, but seems like it was pretty much nonstop nom nom nom.
Cassandra Clare
#81. The weight of words.
Words can be fearsome weapons, tools or means powerful!
Joko Ono
#82. Though sympathy tugged at her, Sophie's imagination made fearsome leaps. The grieving widower. The destitute governess. A motherless child. It had all the makings of a scintillating novel.
Laura Frantz
#83. Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.
Winston Churchill
#84. She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.
Jack Prelutsky
#85. Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.
Terry Pratchett
#86. Lack of leadership can have fearsome consequences. A dog's mental health, after all, depends to a large degree on leadership: dogs get enormously distressed when they think no one is in charge. Accordingly, it's not only nonsensical to fail to establish rules and limits with a dog ... but cruel.
Caroline Knapp
#87. Can fearsome Ayo, who is herself a warrior, not understand their suffering? Can she not see what fire and inundation have done to the Wakadan heart?" "Tetu, I am a woman . I saw more suffering, more of the human heart, in my first five years than you will see in five lifetimes.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#88. Tread not into the fearsome night
But pull the covers high,
Step not into the wild dark wood
For the Hobbers are dancing nigh
Robin Jarvis
#89. PERCY MISSED BOB. He'd gotten used to having the Titan on his side, lighting their way with his silver hair and his fearsome war broom. Now their only guide was an emaciated corpse lady with serious self-esteem issues.
Rick Riordan
#90. When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
D. A. Pennebaker
#91. Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
Ian Buruma
#92. A tiger, however fearsome, could be hunted into a corner. It fought alone, so it died alone. But to hunt a wolf was to constantly look over your shoulder, wondering if others were behind you in the dark. "Lost?
Nicholas Eames
#93. Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
William J. Clinton
#94. Even someone like Mrs. Bonnaventura, who had lived a mostly blameless life, when ushered into the awesome presence of the Creator of the infinite universe and also of the butterfly, would discover ten thousand fearsome new layers of meaning in the word humility.
Dean Koontz
#95. 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
#96. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.
Howard Zinn
#97. The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time?
Aaron Copland
#99. Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.
Phil Cousineau
#100. The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.
Douglas Davis
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