Fear Quotes
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, and are doing it, never shun being seen doing it, even though the multitude should be likely to judge the matter amiss. For if you are not acting rightly, shun the act itself; if rightly, however, why fear misplaced censure? (172).
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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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I have been pulled over, and I have actually worried, 'Is something going to happen to me even though I am a law abiding citizen?' That is a real fear and is something that we have to come to grips with.
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From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you.
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If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.
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I'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful experience. It was such a fully realized show.
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What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?
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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
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The Buddha said, ‘Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.’ I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.
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My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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A great photographer shares what they fear losing most
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The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.
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We can't be brave without fear.
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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
