Fear Quotes
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin -
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy -
Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.
Mary Gaitskill -
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Napoleon Hill -
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.
Jason Reynolds
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
Anne Carson -
Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
Gabby Douglas -
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain -
hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young
e. e. cummings -
I pledge you that we will neither commit nor provoke aggression, that we shall neither flee nor invoke the threat of force, that we shall never negotiate out of fear, we shall never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy -
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
Albert Einstein -
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Orison Swett Marden -
I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
Natalie Gulbis -
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken -
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.
Ezra Taft Benson
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My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.
Jennifer Love Hewitt -
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy -
As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
Elizabeth Hoyt -
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
Mother Teresa