Famous Quotes
- March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran on Fear
- Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
- Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Fear
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
- Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
- Rashida Jones on Fear
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon on Fear
- Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on Fear
- Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Fear
- Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
- Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
- Virginia C. Andrews on Fear
- Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
- Henry A. Wallace on Fear
- More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
- Lev Grossman on Fear
- Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
- Marvin Gaye on Fear
- Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
- R. L. Stine on Fear
- Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
- Andrew Cohen on Fear
- Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
- Christy Turlington on Fear
- Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
- Polly Toynbee on Fear
- My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
- Franz Kafka on Fear
- My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on Fear
- My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on Fear
- My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.
- Travis Barker on Fear
- My biggest fear in life is to be average.
- M. Night Shyamalan on Fear
- My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
- Evita Peron on Fear
- My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
- Anne Lamott on Fear
- My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.
- Rashida Jones on Fear
- My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
- Cornel West on Fear
- My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
- Andrew Cuomo on Fear
- My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
- John Mayer on Fear
- My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.
- Trey Parker on Fear
- My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
- John Hawkes on Fear
- My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
- Huey Newton on Fear
- My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.
- Portia De Rossi on Fear
- My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
- Jack Layton on Fear
- My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
- Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva on Fear
- My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
- Anthony Horowitz on Fear
- My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on Fear
- My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
- David Mamet on Fear
- My greatest fear: repetition.
- Max Frisch on Fear
- My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
- Danica McKellar on Fear
- My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- Thomas Jefferson on Fear
- My only fear is the unknown.
- David Blaine on Fear
- My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
- Shane Warne on Fear
- My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
- Natan Sharansky on Fear
- My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
- Halle Berry on Fear
- Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
- Milan Kundera on Fear
- Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
- Tertullian on Fear
- Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
- Francis Quarles on Fear
- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell on Fear
- Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
- Olive Schreiner on Fear
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