Famous Quotes
- As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
- Dave Barry on Fear
- As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work it's about not having enough money.
- Paul Giamatti on Fear
- As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
- James Bovard on Fear
- As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
- Ariel Sharon on Fear
- As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
- Cyril Connolly on Fear
- As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
- Simone Weil on Fear
- As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
- As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson on Fear
- As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
- Beth Ditto on Fear
- As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
- Alice Walker on Fear
- At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
- Gordon Parks on Fear
- At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
- Jesse Jackson on Fear
- At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Fear
- At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
- Jacqueline Bisset on Fear
- Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.
- Publilius Syrus on Fear
- Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
- Susan Sontag on Fear
- Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Vita Sackville-West on Fear
- Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
- Charles Stanley on Fear
- Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
- George S. Patton on Fear
- Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
- Ryan White on Fear
- Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
- Harlan Coben on Fear
- Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
- Seth Godin on Fear
- Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
- Bear Grylls on Fear
- Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
- Ivo Andric on Fear
- Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
- John Dryden on Fear
- Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Bertrand Russell on Fear
- Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
- Kevin O'Leary on Fear
- But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
- Ginnifer Goodwin on Fear
- But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
- Barry Bonds on Fear
- But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
- James Thurber on Fear
- But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
- Reese Witherspoon on Fear
- By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
- Edward Walker on Fear
- By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
- Samuel Daniel on Fear
- By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
- Ayelet Waldman on Fear
- Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
- Natan Sharansky on Fear
- Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
- Elisha Cuthbert on Fear
- Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
- Daniel H. Wilson on Fear
- China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
- Paul Wolfowitz on Fear
- Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell on Fear
- Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
- Will Durst on Fear
- Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
- Stanislav Grof on Fear
- Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
- Charles Kennedy on Fear
- Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- David Ben-Gurion on Fear
- Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- George S. Patton on Fear
- Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
- Arthur Koestler on Fear
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain on Fear
- Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
- Nelson Mandela on Fear
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