Fear Quotes
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My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
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In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
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But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.
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Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.
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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
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If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.
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I fear my ignorance.
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Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.
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My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
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You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.
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I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
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Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.
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You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
