It was accountability that Nixon feared.

- Bob Woodward

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

- Confucius

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

- David O. Selznick

As a young actor, I played a lot of 'exotic' parts and was stuck with the tag 'sultry.' I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.

- Diana Quick

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

- Indira Gandhi

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

- John Jay Hooker

I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

- Karen Salmansohn

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

- Ovid

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

- Queen Christina

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

- Ryan Reynolds

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

- Ray Nagin

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

- Susan Sontag