149 Quotes About Dread

  • Author Neal Shusterman
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    You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

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  • Author William Cowper
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    Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;Like Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

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  • Author Ernie Els
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    I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.

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  • Author Amy Fessler
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    We want them to think of it as their gym. That way, they'll grow up thinking exercise is fun, and not something you dread doing.

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  • Author Helen Garner
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    Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

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  • Author Clara Hughes
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    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.

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  • Author Ian Holm
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    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.

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  • Author John Howe
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    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.

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