Edgar Wallace Quotes
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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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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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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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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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.
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I have no remedy for fear; there growsNo herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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Do not let fear become disabling. That is what the terrorists want. They want you to imagine them in the shadows; they want you to imagine them as something greater than they are.
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As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
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It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.
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When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.
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A life without love is like a year without spring.
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Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
