#fearful

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. ↗

— Helen Keller

#bold #caught #danger #exposure #fearful

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement. ↗

— Ben Stein

#alert #am #around #calmer #concentrate

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#climate #commencement #droughts #fearful #new

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#average person #before #fearful #group #more

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#fearful #life #small #life

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#choice #down #either #extension #family

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. ↗

— John Mortimer

#dread #fear #fearful #feel #flattered

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#obsequiousness #relationship

It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you. ↗

— J. Cornell Michel

#apocalyptic #fear #fearful #important #respect

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#deeper #ends #evil #fearful #good