Erica Jong Quotes
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Erica Jong
Quotes to Explore
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
S. C. Gwynne
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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.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
Vash Young
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I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
Val McDermid
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
Vanessa Paradis
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You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
Wade Davis
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
J. Anthony Lukas
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Harold Kushner
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.
Karan Johar
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To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
David Joseph Schwartz
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I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.
Bill Vaughan
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These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.
Wadah Khanfar
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I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
Baba Amte
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Erica Jong
