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  • Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. -- Judith Malina
  • Curran is the Beast Lord. Tremble. -- Ilona Andrews
  • Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world! -- Richard Price
  • Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. -- Jacques Delille
  • Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice. -- William Shakespeare
  • Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke! -- Rick Riordan
  • Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break. -- Margaret Fuller
  • I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion. -- William Shakespeare
  • The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return to introduce another one in due course. -- Keith Olbermann
  • If God is just, I tremble for my country. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb. -- Zahi Hawass
  • Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. -- Vittorio Alfieri
  • The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. -- Lajos Kossuth
  • I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. -- Emir Kusturica
  • When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. -- John Crowe Ransom
  • The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them. -- Rosemary Mahoney
  • I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. -- Robert E. Lee
  • Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! -- Karl Marx
  • When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the love of it. There's nothing I love more than playing live. -- Eliza Doolittle
  • Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. -- James K. Polk
  • I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God. -- James Green Somerville
  • I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. -- Lauren Bacall
  • The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. -- Joseph Rotblat
  • I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination. -- Rosemary Mahoney
  • Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another? -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. -- Evita Peron
  • I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble. -- Zadie Smith
  • Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. -- Oscar Romero
  • A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • I am made to tremble and I fear! -- Pope John XXIII
  • For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. -- Dante Alighieri
  • In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. -- Jane Hirshfield
  • I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . . -- Thomas Harris
  • Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism. -- Barack Obama
  • Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble. -- Sappho
  • The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble. -- James F. Cooper
  • When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. -- Cornel West
  • Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry. -- Alfred Austin
  • 'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble. -- Richard Baxter
  • To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still. -- Rumi
  • Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem. -- Janet Fitch
  • Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble. -- Sophie Swetchine
  • Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.... -- Anne Sexton
  • The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble. -- Sam Keen
  • If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. -- Che Guevara
  • I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit. -- John Knox
  • The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up. -- Charles Dickens
  • The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. -- Ayn Rand
  • It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy. -- Julia Child
  • The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. -- Madame Roland
  • We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry -- Edward Young
  • I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see. -- Emmet Gowin
  • Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes. -- Denis Diderot
  • Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble. -- William Godwin
  • The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
  • Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. -- William Lloyd Garrison
  • Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. -- Jane Hirshfield
  • The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble. -- John Bradshaw
  • Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got. -- W. C. Fields
  • We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. -- Charles Bukowski
  • All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill. -- Anonymous
  • She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair. -- Holly Black
  • We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope -- Carl F. H. Henry
  • For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one. -- Herman Melville
  • The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist! -- Auguste Rodin
  • Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. -- Marya Mannes
  • When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us? -- Hilary of Poitiers
  • We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. -- Khalil
  • All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill. -- Gautama Buddha
  • If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades. -- Che Guevara
  • When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works. -- Jude Bijou
  • I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered. -- Mira Grant
  • I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone.... -- William Butler Yeats
  • On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. -- Aeschylus
  • Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. -- Charles Churchill
  • Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • I know my breasts, smallas plums, would win no blue ribbons.But in your hands they tremble and fillwith song like plump, white birds. -- Cecilia Llompart
  • Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872 -- Otto von Bismarck
  • First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. -- Denis Diderot
  • Victory is in our hands! It's time for our legends to begin! Don't tremble, and don't you dare cry! Come on, show some energy! -- Nobuyuki Fukumoto
  • The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word. -- Elie Wiesel
  • All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? -- Gautama Buddha
  • The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action. -- Graham Greene
  • Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers. -- Peter Kropotkin
  • All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder. -- Lucretius
  • The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes. -- Rachilde
  • I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss. -- John Keats
  • Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of. -- Daniel Defoe
  • Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts? -- William Gurnall
  • Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest. -- Francis of Assisi
  • Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop. -- Samuel Rutherford
  • But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble. -- Eric Ludy
  • There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret. -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at. -- Oliver Cromwell
  • Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep. -- Kathleen Raine
  • What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. -- William Shakespeare
  • Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions. -- Martin Buber
  • Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then. -- David Letterman
  • The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door. -- Eugene Delacroix
  • May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. -- Zachary Taylor
  • The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed -- Helene Cixous
  • Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh. -- Arthur Rimbaud
  • Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer. -- Amy Lowell
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