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Famous Quotes
- We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
- We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Tad Williams on Fear
- We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
- Theodore C. Sorensen on Fear
- We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
- Alanis Morissette on Fear
- We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
- Emmanuelle Beart on Fear
- We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
- Ron Fournier on Fear
- Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
- Ricky Williams on Fear
- What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
- Isabel Allende on Fear
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
- Saint Augustine on Fear
- What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
- Simon Travaglia on Fear
- What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on Fear
- What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
- J. G. Ballard on Fear
- What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Fear
- What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.
- Robert Crais on Fear
- What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
- Sonia Johnson on Fear
- What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
- Patrick Swayze on Fear
- When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
- Horace Mann on Fear
- When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
- When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
- A. N. Wilson on Fear
- When desire dies, fear is born.
- Baltasar Gracian on Fear
- When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
- Harry S. Truman on Fear
- When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
- Alfred Eisenstaedt on Fear
- When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau on Fear
- When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
- Vincent D'Onofrio on Fear
- When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
- Jeanne Moreau on Fear
- When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.
- Ray Comfort on Fear
- When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
- When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
- Alanis Morissette on Fear
- When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
- Thomas Frank on Fear
- When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson on Fear
- When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Fear
- When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
- Hale White on Fear
- When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
- Natan Sharansky on Fear
- When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
- Margaret J. Wheatley on Fear
- When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
- Bell Hooks on Fear
- When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.
- John Stossel on Fear
- When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
- Warren Farrell on Fear
- When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
- When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
- Wayne Rooney on Fear
- When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.
- Charisma Carpenter on Fear
- When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
- M. Night Shyamalan on Fear
- When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
- Drew Barrymore on Fear
- When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- John Charles Polanyi on Fear
- Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.
- David Duchovny on Fear
- Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
- W. Edwards Deming on Fear
- Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Fear
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- Francis Of Assisi on Fear
- Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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