David Gemmell Quotes
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The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.
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When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
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I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"
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The onset of fear makes the simplest actions complex and difficult.
