Fear Quotes
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The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.
Gene Luen Yang
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Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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It was very clear these people live with very real fear of emotional and physical harm, even now. Learning that they live in that world, that causes me to rethink and be more sensitive to some of the actions I do may have unintended consequences.
Larry Miller
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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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My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
John Hurt
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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.
Gautama Buddha
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The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.
Arch Ward
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Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
Brad Pitt
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The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay
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I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.
Ned Kelly
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When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. … Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer.
John Muir
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The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.
William Faulkner
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Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
Brennan Manning
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Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Samuel Ullman
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Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.
Ziad K. Abdelnour