Famous Quotes
- People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
- Mary McCarthy on Fear
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- Joseph Conrad on Fear
- Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
- Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
- Audrey Hepburn on Fear
- Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
- J. K. Rowling on Fear
- Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck on Fear
- Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Fear
- President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
- President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.
- Eliot Spitzer on Fear
- President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.
- Andrea Jung on Fear
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon on Fear
- Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H. L. Mencken on Fear
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson on Fear
- Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
- Rowan Williams on Fear
- Realists do not fear the results of their study.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky on Fear
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- Ambrose Bierce on Fear
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- Steve Jobs on Fear
- Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Fear
- Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
- T. D. Jakes on Fear
- Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
- Noam Chomsky on Fear
- Respect and fear are two different things.
- Jane Smiley on Fear
- Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
- Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
- Jeffrey Sachs on Fear
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
- Russell Baker on Fear
- Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
- William Hazlitt on Fear
- Scalded cats fear even cold water.
- Thomas Fuller on Fear
- See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
- Garrett Hedlund on Fear
- Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
- John Calvin on Fear
- Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
- Ron Fournier on Fear
- Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
- Kevin Mitnick on Fear
- Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
- Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
- Sam Shepard on Fear
- Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
- Phil Crosby on Fear
- So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
- Steve Irwin on Fear
- So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
- Jesse Jackson on Fear
- So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
- Haniel Long on Fear
- So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
- Robert Kiyosaki on Fear
- So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Fear
- Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
- Edward Albert on Fear
- Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
- Samuel Butler on Fear
- Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
- Fred Allen on Fear
- Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
- Eric Cantona on Fear
- Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
- Anna Deavere Smith on Fear
- Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
- Maggie Kuhn on Fear
- Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
- Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.
- Melissa Rosenberg on Fear
- Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Fear
- Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
- Jean Baudrillard on Fear
- Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
- Paulo Coelho on Fear
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