Famous Quotes
- I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.
- Shalom Harlow on Fear
- I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
- Thomas Friedman on Fear
- I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
- I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
- Etty Hillesum on Fear
- I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
- I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
- John B. S. Haldane on Fear
- I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.
- Helen Reddy on Fear
- I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
- Sara Blakely on Fear
- I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.
- I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
- Diane Abbott on Fear
- I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
- Alan Cumming on Fear
- I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.
- Michelle Pfeiffer on Fear
- I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.
- Hugh Jackman on Fear
- I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
- J. K. Rowling on Fear
- I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
- Malcolm Mclaren on Fear
- I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
- T. S. Eliot on Fear
- I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.
- Kristen Wiig on Fear
- I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
- Donald Cargill on Fear
- I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
- Muqtada Al Sadr on Fear
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- Anne Lamott on Fear
- I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
- Calvin Klein on Fear
- I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
- Frank Ocean on Fear
- I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
- J. G. Ballard on Fear
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
- Joan Didion on Fear
- I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
- Audre Lorde on Fear
- I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
- Florence Welch on Fear
- I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
- Freida Pinto on Fear
- I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
- Matt Damon on Fear
- I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.
- Kristen Wiig on Fear
- I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
- Jack Nicklaus on Fear
- I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Fear
- I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.
- Sugar Ray Leonard on Fear
- I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.
- Junior Seau on Fear
- I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.
- Michael Fassbender on Fear
- I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
- Florence Welch on Fear
- I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
- Taylor Swift on Fear
- I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
- Britney Spears on Fear
- I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
- Heston Blumenthal on Fear
- I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
- David Guetta on Fear
- I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
- George Eliot on Fear
- I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
- I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
- Hugh Jackman on Fear
- I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
- Jennifer Lopez on Fear
- I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
- Laura Marling on Fear
- I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
- David Byrne on Fear
- I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
- Emma Watson on Fear
- If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
- John Paul Jones on Fear
- If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
- Indira Gandhi on Fear
- If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
- Billy Corgan on Fear
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein on Fear
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