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“I do not argue that nature is sacrosanct in the sense that we must never tamper with nature. That would disempower, really, all of medicine. That would mean that we can't combat dread diseases - malaria, polio, all of which are given by nature, if one thinks about it.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Given Disease Medicine Arguing Combat Dread Malaria Polio

Author:Michael Sandel

“I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.”

Thinking Hate New York Walking I Hate Train Winter Dread

Author:Frankie Cosmos

“Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.”

Disease Awful Dread Alcoholism

Author:Malachy McCourt

“We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.”

Reason America Nations Fear White Violence Property Dread Deprived Private Property Prospering

Author:June Jordan

“Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal, it's still a fractal of something that emanates from within your consciousness - from within the human consciousness. And it'll move on and manifest itself externally, and then those are what we pick up as societal ills. But all these battles we're fighting are internal. For me, it's reconciling hope with dread and trying to cut out some place in my mind where my heart can be protected a little bit.”

“I do think that dread is about a certain kind of expectation. And the fact that a picture can never resolve itself the way a movie can - maybe that's a specific kind of dread that becomes associated with a picture.”

Thinking Way Kind Facts Certain Expectations Resolve Dread

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“Dread of night. Dread of not-night.”

Night Fear Dread

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.”

Ifs Wells May Optimistic Dread Catastrophe Being Optimistic

Author:John Perry Barlow

“The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.”

Feels States United United States Administration Dread Paralyzed

Author:Toni Morrison

“I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language.”

Knows World Feels Kind Might Moving Language Confusion Dread Translate Moving Away

Author:Toni Morrison

“Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.”

Attitude Company Workers Dread Wrong Attitude

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.”

Heart Two Lovers Sake Violent Beloved Contrast Dread Sweetness Badness Recklessness Wrenches Shuddering

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.”

“The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.”

Littles Built Election Dread

Author:Barry Blitt

“There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist as purely literary constructs. You know, the young man in "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" - I probably got that right - is a literary construct, and enjoys being a literary construct. He has no life off stage, whereas the young men in "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" were as near to being real human beings as I could possibly get them.”

People Men Different Real Character Desire Night Girl House Enjoy Party Secret Slave Short Story Being Real Dread Forbidden Brides

Author:Neil Gaiman

“It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.”

Writing Political Fiction Dread Topics Controversial Controversial Topics

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.”

Kind Remember Response Painful Dread

Author:David Duchovny

“I certainly don't mean to leave the impression that anxiety can be waved away with a simple pep talk. In fact, for some, God's healing will include the help of therapy and/or medication. If that's the case, do not for a moment think that you're a second-class citizen of heaven. Ask God to lead you to a qualified counselor or physician who'll provide the treatment you need. This much is sure: It's not God's will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It's not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.”

Thinking Mean Moments Helping Heaven Simple Healing Anxiety Impression Therapy Dread Pep Trepidation Pep Talk

Author:Max Lucado

“I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.”

Thinking Writing Dread

Author:Ben Doller

“I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You feel the dread and the atmosphere in Yuri Herrera's extraordinary novels, but you'd never say that what he writes is narco fiction. The same goes for Martin Solares's novels, inspired by the nightmare city of Tampico, where he's from. Valeria Luiselli, Álvaro Enrigue, I know that they're deeply affected by what goes on in Mexico, but their wonderful writing points in another direction, though not necessarily always and only.”

Writing Novel Wonderful Extraordinary Inspired Admire Atmosphere Nightmare Dread Skeptical

Author:Francisco Goldman

“There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.”

Fun Stress Selling Dread

Author:Rob Zombie

“Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.”

People Needs Believe Said America Mother I Believe Half Known Share Streets Dying India Sells Profit Cures Existentialism Dread Existential Bananas Teresa

Author:Anne Lamott

“Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.”

Sometimes Shows Fear Lines Dread

Author:Vivien Leigh

“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.”

Humans Action Evil Principles Perspective Philosophical Dread Human Actions Good Against Evil

Author:John Locke

“Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.”

People Next Enjoy Ability Months Ordinary Decades Stealing Related Anxious Dread Next Day Looking Forward Ordinary Life

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.”

Stills Fear Black Boys Constant Target Dread Black Boy

Author:Toni Morrison

“Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.”

Fear Cities Hollywood Sickness Dread Anticipation

Author:Dirk Benedict

“The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.”

Ifs Book Lasts Progress Notes Superstitions Dread Files New Books Work In Progress

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.”

Men Faces Fear Shapes Bravery Brave Dread Perpetual Brave Man

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.”

Inspirational Philosophy Funny Change One Day Anxiety Humorous Witty Dread Peanuts Sweet Love One Day At A Time Off The Wall Living One Day At A Time Take It One Day At A Time Snoopy Take One Day At A Time

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”

Fear Pride Weakness Competition Dread Rivals Admission

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

Wisdom Pride Aim Humble Rebel Dread Whips Recess

Book:Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

“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.”

Children Might Fear Parent Wonder Horse Anger Angry Senses Awful Dread Misbehaving Horse Sense

Author:Benjamin Spock

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

People Dream Fear Sleep Sweet Blessing Blessed Dread No Fear Have No Fear Sweet Dreams

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

“The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.”

Play Next Cities Phones Dread Cop Next Day New Day Phone Calls

Author:Ice T

“Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.”

People Mind Strong Fear Common Laughing Weapons Empty Weak Coward Dread Ridicule Strong Mind Strong Minded

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

Has Beens Art Done Literature Fear Common Modern Elements Art Is Dread Symptoms Immature Immaturity Modern Art

Author:Edith Wharton

“I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.”

Looks Optimism Dread Dogmatic

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am.”

Giving Moments School Faces Used Deals Class Teacher Fronts Reports Call Me Dread Straight Face

Author:Steven Wright

“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”

Men Ends Fear Animal Dying Dread

Author:William Butler Yeats

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

Thinking World Should Mind Humans Black Sea Ignorance Islands Midst Human Mind Infinity Dread Inability Voyages Merciful Placid

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

Giving Time Strange Habit Dread Harry Potter Slow Down Potters Strange Things Speeding Concept Of Time Harry Potter Series Down Time Harry Potter Birthday Speeding Up

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”

May Change Salvation Dread

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”

Source: Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems

“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

People Dream Pain Sleep Struggle Sweet Terrible Horror Blessing Late Blessed Dread No Fear Have No Fear Sleeplessness Sweet Dreams

Book:Classic Horror Collection: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Jekyll and Hyde, & The Island of Dr. Moreau

Source: Classic Horror Collection: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Jekyll and Hyde, & The Island of Dr. Moreau

“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”

Missing Poison Dread Tempted Remorse

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”

Thinking Humans Suffering Natural Fate Tragedy Regard Disaster Human Life Exception Dread Calamity Unnatural Abnormal

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”

Men Opportunity Love Is Failing Broken Advantage Punishment Obligation Preserves Links Dread Owing Baseness

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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