Fearsome Quotes

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. - Henry Miller

When you win a championship, it solidifies everything. People never talk about the Purple People Eaters [of Minnesota], or the Fearsome Foursome [of the Los Angeles Rams] in the same light as the Steel Curtain [of Pittsburgh] or the Doomsday Defense of the Cowboys. Right now we're in the same class. We won a championship, and we play lights-out defense. - Warren Sapp

When the numbers come out, they're not going to be as fearsome as some people think they're going to be. - Mathew Eddy

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. - Abraham Maslow

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts. - Winston Churchill

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. - Sophocles

Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people. - Bill Clinton

These guys were fearsome. They could deter anything but a minor army. - Tony Wilkinson

It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. - Hannah Arendt