#fearsome

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#fearsomeness #fury #humor #anger

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. ↗

— Sophocles

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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?' ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

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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

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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. ↗

— Karl Rove

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