Trembling Quotations

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we the living our lives are giving To bring the bright new world to birth.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

Meeting Jack was a pivotal moment for me. I was trembling with nerves, but he's just a sweet, smiley, wee boy who likes football.

My head was in a whirl, and I was trembling with excitement, surrendered to the passion of the moment like a gambler, like a hunter.

If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

I don't want to be 80 years old standing behind this chair. I have seen barbers stay too long, trying to cut hair and trembling at the same time. That won't happen to me.

God calls men to be imitators of His son, Jesus Christ, to conform themselves to Christ's image (1 Cor. 15:49). They are to work out the salvation that God gives them, and they are to do this with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12). This kind of steady improvement involves upward mobility: spiritual improvement, at the very least, but also economic and social mobility.

He is not trembling and his bench isn't shaking either,

Today I got off to a bit of a trembling start, but then got it back on track after a couple of holes and played really well on the back nine.

We are kindred all of us, ... killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, the trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails, all of them, all of us.

He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.

Confession may be good for the soul, but not on Wall Street. The negative pre-announcements that have been with us for the past two weeks has begun to accelerate with 21 confessions yesterday (Wednesday) and a handful this morning. This sets up some fear and trembling about the wide range of reports to come through most of July.

The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.

Do it trembling if you must, but do it!

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

The little boy was trembling uncontrollably, ... His little legs were shaking so badly as to appear exaggerated. Yet, he was so scared that he was too scared to cry.

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

In art one idea is as good as another.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed; And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But coward-like with trembling terror die

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.