#fearful

Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#fearful #four #i #into #knew

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#because #everything #fearful #feels #fragile

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#because #believed #bring #economic #economic strength

I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation. ↗

— Scott Walker

#alike #because #both #complaint #decisions

A fearful man is always hearing things. ↗

— Sophocles

#fearful #hearing #man #things

I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#creepy #fear #fearful #ghost #ghosts

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#bashful #being #belonged #court #dull

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attempt #become #beware #endeavoring #fearful

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#after #another #any #coming #down

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle. ↗

— John B. Hood

#battle #brave #engaged #ever #fearful