Fear Quotes
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When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
Lao Tzu
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My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
John Cameron
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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
Billy Joel
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Fear lowers your immune system so let’s all find some time to be grateful and glad for what we still have. Seek out the truth and tune out all loud and vexing voices of economic propaganda. In this, human lives should come first, the health of the Planet should come first.
Alexander Polinsky
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Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.
Nelson Mandela
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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
John Hersey
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It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.
Lewis Carroll
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The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
Peter Mandelson
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Unbelief is based in fear! Belief is a necessity for God to operate and function in your life.
Creflo A. Dollar
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Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
William Shakespeare
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Every fear is fear of death.
Wilhelm Stekel
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Fear is the foundation of all human limitations.
Benny Urquidez
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Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.
Alexander Lowen
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Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.
Anh Do
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Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
Douglas Jerrold
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I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
Phyllida Lloyd
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
Emil Cioran
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Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me! Fear, Hope, and Longing, at strife, Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever, Gathering strength, gaining breath, - naught can sever Me from the Spirit of Life!
Margaret Fuller
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Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.
Diane Ackerman