#feared

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. ↗

— Rita Dove

#age #apprehensive #every #every time #feared

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. ↗

— Bill Gates

#always #change #coal #come #electricity

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#conditioning #direct #feared #gained #i

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#both #cannot #feared #loved #than

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#fear #feared #ike #me #russians

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#feared #had #just #languages #manage

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#charming #differs #fact #feared #great

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions. ↗

— David O. Selznick

#feared #grapes #i #never #nor

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#avoided #everyday #feared #i #life