Dread Quotes

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
Tony Dungy

Children, Night, Anyone

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
Princess Margaret

Life, Becoming, Passenger

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.
Tom Jones

Life, Time, Enemy

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Hans Selye

Approval, Thirst

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.
Matthew Simpson

God, Fear, Made

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter

Understand, Until, Illness

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Benjamin Spock

Anger, Angry, Children

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.
Anton Yelchin

Movies, Sense, Vampire

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund Waller

Love, God, Thought

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
Beatrice Webb

Work, Best, Strong

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Mika Waltari

Life, Hope, Past

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.
Clara Hughes

Life, Tomorrow, Remember

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe

Life, Thought, Away

I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.
Nina Dobrev

Work, Morning, Cool

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.
Gabriel Mann

Character, Father, Play

I have become that mother I used to dread.
Bridget Moynahan

Mother, Become, Used

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
Charles Inglis

Before, State, Republican

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.
George Combe

Put, Cold, Avoid

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

Fear, Show, Magic

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms

Death, Afraid, Show

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms

Death, Genius, Criticism

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
Robert Blair

Nature, Men, Her

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
William H. Wharton

Texas, Indians, Mexican

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
Yanni

Music, Time, Write

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
James Wolfe

Army, Superior, Forces

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.
Thomas Ken

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Love, Fear, True

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
Jack Cade

Nothing, Law, Wrong

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower

Life, Good, Long

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
Antonio de Mendoza

Men, Why, Liberty

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