The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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.
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.
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.
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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.
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.
As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.
When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Auditions are so much fun. A lot of people dread auditions; they think they have to do it in order to get the job. I don't really mind if I don't get the job, as long as I get to do something interesting in the audition. It makes me feel more creative as a person.
I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.
I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.
I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.
