#tremble

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

#country #degree #depend #family #fear

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#exactly #grounds #poetic #poets #prose

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#better #board #calmly #chess #good

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#been #effect #famous #famous people #his

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #did #during

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#makes #open #tomb #tremble #undiscovered

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#laws #need #them #tremble #where

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#beginning #chest #chin #could #head

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. ↗

— Judith Malina

#life is a #moment #now #rehearsal #tremble

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#country #expressed #god #hear #hope