Fear Quotes
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Then in my heart a fear Cried out, 'A life - why, beautiful, why dead!' It was a mite that held itself most dear, So small I could have drowned it with a tear.
Karl Shapiro
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The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.
Edwidge Danticat
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
Ian Gomez
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Never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. It was all joy. Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child - that I awakened each morning with a smile. I don’t remember that, but I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.
Mary Martin
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
Darren Aronofsky
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I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Emma Watson
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Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.
Ogden Nash
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There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
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Fear is excitement without the breath.
Fritz Perls
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We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.
Jake Halpern
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Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
Michael Douglas
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Polly Toynbee
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.
M. Scott Peck
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
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There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
Ed Harris
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I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
Penn Jillette
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And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
Omar Khayyam
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Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
Mike Tyson
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Perfect love casteth out fear.
William Penn
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For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.
Chaz Bono
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You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk.
Chris Hadfield
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.
Pamela Meyer