The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear
Jiddu KrishnamurtiFor in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice WalkerI don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom HanksLove takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James BaldwinTyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William BlakeDisease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Mary Baker EddyNow, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy
Nick NolteKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis StevensonAs you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
Christina Of SwedenHe who doesn't fear death dies only once. [You can't die more than once can you?]
Giovanni FalconeNothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie CurieIt's a part like any other except it's shorter than a lot. [on his role in The Sum of All Fears]
Alan BatesEach sudden gust of light explains itself
as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear (Leaving Belfast)
Andrew MotionGun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
Diane AbbottIf 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 GandhiHateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved
Cornelius NeposWe didn't really know what was going on. It was announced that Cyndi had won and we were congratulating her when Fearne said: 'No, Scooch, Scooch!' We were like, eh? [on Terry Wogan announcing the wrong winner of Eurovision]
David DucasseMen! The only animal in the world to fear.
D H LawrenceWhen the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honour scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert G IngersollThere was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
Pierre VergniaudWhen 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 MannIf an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
Elias CanettiEvery noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
MetastasioListen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard BachWe fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell BoveeA humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
Ramsey ClarkThen come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind,
And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind.
Henry Jackson Van DykeOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria RilkeGod, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
Ruby DeeI think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice WalkerNothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto EcoFate loves the fearless
James Russell LowellNecessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favourite of fortune.
Francis QuarlesI fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce LeeThe fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. - Maxims
Publilius SyrusOur fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
Johnny WilkinsonWhen they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.
Daniel BoorstinWho feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
SophoclesAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerDon't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe RuthWhatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
VirgilI hope that the art of word play and people's greater verbal dexterity is not yet dead but I fear, alas, that this may be the way things go in the future.
Johnny HartI suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John MortimerAnd the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Honore De BalzacI am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
Zach BraffThe best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Susan SontagDo not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles DavisWhom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
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