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TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. -- Benjamin Rush
The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.' -- David Carson
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'. -- David Tang
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that. -- Dan Jenkins
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. -- Paula Abdul
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. -- Epictetus
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. -- Ambrose Bierce
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. -- Trent Reznor
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. -- James Madison
There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. -- John Bonham
Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded 'bingo wings.' -- Twiggy
But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. -- Jim Valvano
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded. -- Ethel Waters
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. -- John Foxe
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. -- Carroll Quigley
Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster. -- Regina Brett
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. -- Gail Sheehy
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers. -- Mercy Otis Warren
For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had. -- Jane Leavy
When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people. -- Sue Townsend
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. -- David Byrne
I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return. -- Bob Woodward
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better. -- Ralph Lauren
You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape. -- Rachel Cusk
I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares! -- Jake Epstein
Hidden evils are most dreaded. -- Martial
If you are dreaded by many then beware of many. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. -- Augustus Hare
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. -- John Adams
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. -- George Washington
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. -- Sallust
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. -- Publilius Syrus
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. -- Publilius Syrus
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you. -- Chanakya
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate. -- Henry David Thoreau
I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police." -- Adolfo Bioy Casares
Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond. -- Adam Brody
Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded. -- Charles Spurgeon
There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess. -- Eugene Sue
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings. -- Susie Orbach
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say. -- Jonathan Swift
Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded. -- Octave Feuillet
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored. -- Ina May Gaskin
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic? -- P. D. James
My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it. -- Jason Mraz
â?¦Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. -- Louisa May Alcott
For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. -- D. H. Lawrence
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. -- Libba Bray
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid. -- Libba Bray
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it. -- Rachel Vincent
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them... -- Benjamin Rush
Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded. -- Ferdinand von Mueller
Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure. -- Elizabeth Missing Sewell
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. -- Ellen Glasgow
Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams. -- Dr. Linda Barboa
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I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl -- Robin Wright
I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl. -- Robin Wright
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. -- James Madison
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved. -- Robertson Davies
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves. -- John Updike
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope. -- Maya Angelou
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility. -- Charmian Clift
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death. -- Mark Twain
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter. -- Charles Cowden Clarke
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.' -- Michael A. Ledeen
Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded. -- Paul Bowles
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. -- Khalil Gibran
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. -- George Washington
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. -- Epicurus
Eight shows in six days can become very tiring - actually, a grind. It's not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude. -- James Snyder
The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers." -- John Adams
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of. -- A. N. Wilson
Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over. -- Ann Brashares
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. -- Edmund Burke

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