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- A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
- Edward P. Morgan on Fear
- A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
- George Matthew Adams on Fear
- A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
- Nadine Gordimer on Fear
- A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
- Julien Green on Fear
- A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
- Herb Kelleher on Fear
- A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.
- Kathie Lee Gifford on Fear
- A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
- Dan Savage on Fear
- A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
- Mary Schmich on Fear
- A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
- Michael Morpurgo on Fear
- A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
- Lewis Thomas on Fear
- A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on Fear
- A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
- Warren Farrell on Fear
- A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
- James Cash Penney on Fear
- A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy on Fear
- A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
- Henry Van Dyke on Fear
- A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Fear
- A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
- David Hume on Fear
- A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
- Jack Nicholson on Fear
- A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
- A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
- Roald Dahl on Fear
- Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
- Bruce Barton on Fear
- Action conquers fear.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga on Fear
- Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
- Douglas Horton on Fear
- Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale on Fear
- Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
- Khalil Gibran on Fear
- African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
- Wangari Maathai on Fear
- All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Fear
- All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
- All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
- J. J. Abrams on Fear
- Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
- Andrew Cohen on Fear
- Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
- Theodore Bikel on Fear
- America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
- Harry S. Truman on Fear
- Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
- Stephen King on Fear
- Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
- Warren Buffett on Fear
- Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
- Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
- Cecil Beaton on Fear
- Americans have discovered fear.
- Jose Saramago on Fear
- Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
- Gouverneur Morris on Fear
- Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski on Fear
- An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
- Otto Von Bismarck on Fear
- An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
- Stanislav Grof on Fear
- An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
- Jean Anouilh on Fear
- And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
- And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.
- Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
- Martha Beck on Fear
- Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.
- Ayelet Waldman on Fear
- Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
- Leighton Meester on Fear
- Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.
- Carrie-Anne Moss on Fear
- 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
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