Fear Quotes
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Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
John Cusack
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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
Jon Ronson
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If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Sean Connery
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A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
Conn Iggulden
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America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.
Tom Ridge
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I made the fearful decision to head to Sydney, Australia, to study the Bible. My calling, my wife, Laura, my church, my passion - all were behind the scariest door of all time. Since that day, this remains exactly true: Fear never leaves. But the way we handle it can always change.
Carl Lentz
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Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.
John Mackey
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He's actually a rather good ruler. Better, I suspect, than most of our Christian monarchs. He's certainly been good for Mysore. He's fetched it a deal of wealth, given it more justice than most countries enjoy in India and he's been tolerant to most religions, though I fear he did persecute some unfortunate Christians.
Bernard Cornwell
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In general, liberals fear conservative judges far too much. In almost all areas, in fact, they dramatically overstate the stakes.
Benjamin Wittes
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
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I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
Matthew Perry
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Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
Monica Raymund
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Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.
Courtney Milan
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
Brian Stann
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People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.
Kevin Mitnick