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We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules. – Alan Watts	added by JokerGem 3 months ago
When we opened for the first time after the flood, it started just dead. And you start to have that sense of dread creep in. Did I do all this, did I sink all this money in, have I started this business and people can't even get here anymore? – Yokie Johnson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
General public dread to tread in the stock market to invest money in shares because of mainly major brokerage firms who are known for misappropriating, manipulating and misguiding their clients only and SEBI protecting them – Lakshheish M Patel	added by laksheishmpatel_1 1 year ago
There's an innate sense of dread, and I think that it comes not just from the announcement that Elon Musk might buy Black Twitter. – Meredith Clark	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Once you cut that hair off, you cut off your line to your ancestors, you cut off your lineage, you cut off everything, and just it's not an option... We don't consider them dreadlocks because we don't dread them we love them. – Desiree Bullock	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And I will tell you, as much as I am willing to defend our liberty at all costs, there's nothing that I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American. And the way that we can have recourse against that is if we all passionately demand that we have election security in all 50 states. – North Carolina	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Always remember that anything but death can be changed or ignored because most things people dread are man-made yet they seem so inevitable or basic. – Goa Kerle	added by Goa_ 2 years ago
' The Land of Dread' is what I call it. – George Rash Adams play	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He is suffering, and we're suffering because we don't understand it, i dread a phone call that something happened to my dad. – Elizabeth Estrada	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. – John Adams	added by Normando 3 years ago
Dread is a combination of not knowing, fearing and terror, do you go pick up groceries ? Are gloves enough ? Should I touch the mail ? Your child sneezes. You're living in fear every moment. – Jane Webber	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have everything to dread from the dispossessed. – Elizabeth Bowen	added by anonymous 4 years ago
You start the day you think it will play out the way you saw in your head but then you discover the day is mostly just dread It’s not like what I read – Datakon	added by Datakon 5 years ago
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. – Vivien Leigh	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
I’ve accepted it the best I can, but it’s not something I can put behind me, i dread brushing my teeth. I never used to have any dietary needs, but now I have to avoid crunchy or chewy foods. My jaw gets tired easily. – Jasmin Floyd	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Please choose the way of peace…In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. – Mother Teresa	added by acronimous 7 years ago
I still dread that every day I live, I'm one day farther away from my life with Daniel. – Mark Barden	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I would take the Metro down and we would stop at the Pentagon station, there'd just be this feeling of dread even pulling through the station. The first time I was back in the building, I could still smell that kerosene smell, which was unnerving. – John Thurman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Listen to your body and the message it’s sending. Make sure you’re thinking of running as something you want to do, not something you dread. Embrace it and remember how lucky you are to be out there. – Jonathan Cane	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What the video doesn’t show are the invisible things; the sense of dread and anticipation that something terrible is about to happen. – Cherrie Anderson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This is probably going to be disappointing for you, but I am not and have never been Dread Pirate Roberts, the investigation reached that conclusion already - this is why I am not the one sitting during the Silk Road trial, and I can only feel defense attorney Joshua Dratel trying everything he can to point the attention away from his client. – Mark Karpeles	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 9 years ago
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. – Jean Paul	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience? – Joseph Conrad	added by anonymous 10 years ago

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules.

– Alan Watts

added by JokerGem
3 months ago

When we opened for the first time after the flood, it started just dead. And you start to have that sense of dread creep in. Did I do all this, did I sink all this money in, have I started this business and people can't even get here anymore?

– Yokie Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

General public dread to tread in the stock market to invest money in shares because of mainly major brokerage firms who are known for misappropriating, manipulating and misguiding their clients only and SEBI protecting them

– Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

There's an innate sense of dread, and I think that it comes not just from the announcement that Elon Musk might buy Black Twitter.

– Meredith Clark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once you cut that hair off, you cut off your line to your ancestors, you cut off your lineage, you cut off everything, and just it's not an option... We don't consider them dreadlocks because we don't dread them we love them.

– Desiree Bullock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And I will tell you, as much as I am willing to defend our liberty at all costs, there's nothing that I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American. And the way that we can have recourse against that is if we all passionately demand that we have election security in all 50 states.

– North Carolina

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Always remember that anything but death can be changed or ignored because most things people dread are man-made yet they seem so inevitable or basic.

– Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

' The Land of Dread' is what I call it.

– George Rash Adams play

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He is suffering, and we're suffering because we don't understand it, i dread a phone call that something happened to my dad.

– Elizabeth Estrada

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

– John Adams

added by Normando
3 years ago

Dread is a combination of not knowing, fearing and terror, do you go pick up groceries ? Are gloves enough ? Should I touch the mail ? Your child sneezes. You're living in fear every moment.

– Jane Webber

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have everything to dread from the dispossessed.

– Elizabeth Bowen

added by anonymous
4 years ago

You start the day you think it will play out the way you saw in your head but then you discover the day is mostly just dread It’s not like what I read

– Datakon

added by Datakon
5 years ago

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

– Vivien Leigh

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

I’ve accepted it the best I can, but it’s not something I can put behind me, i dread brushing my teeth. I never used to have any dietary needs, but now I have to avoid crunchy or chewy foods. My jaw gets tired easily.

– Jasmin Floyd

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Please choose the way of peace…In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

– Mother Teresa

added by acronimous
7 years ago

I still dread that every day I live, I'm one day farther away from my life with Daniel.

– Mark Barden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would take the Metro down and we would stop at the Pentagon station, there'd just be this feeling of dread even pulling through the station. The first time I was back in the building, I could still smell that kerosene smell, which was unnerving.

– John Thurman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Listen to your body and the message it’s sending. Make sure you’re thinking of running as something you want to do, not something you dread. Embrace it and remember how lucky you are to be out there.

– Jonathan Cane

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What the video doesn’t show are the invisible things; the sense of dread and anticipation that something terrible is about to happen.

– Cherrie Anderson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This is probably going to be disappointing for you, but I am not and have never been Dread Pirate Roberts, the investigation reached that conclusion already - this is why I am not the one sitting during the Silk Road trial, and I can only feel defense attorney Joshua Dratel trying everything he can to point the attention away from his client.

– Mark Karpeles

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

– Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
9 years ago

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

– Jean Paul

added by anonymous
10 years ago

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

– Joseph Conrad

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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