Fear Quotes
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What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
Jerome Cavanagh
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Francis Bacon
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Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
Marc Platt
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Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.
Janet Jackson
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.
Darren Boyd
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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Natan Sharansky
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
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When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
Jose Bergamin
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I fear many working men will tell Mrs. Besant that the greatest hindrance to their political and social activity is the apathy of their wives.
Ernest Belfort Bax
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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
Paul Tsongas
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Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.
Rachel Caine
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Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
Aleister Crowley
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I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.
Caitlin Moran
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I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.
Bai Ling
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There can be no security where there is fear.
Felix Frankfurter
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
Byron Katie
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'Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.' 'Which is where?' 'To a responsible future in a properly managed world.'
Dean Koontz
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
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In love, sometimes what you fear is exactly what you need.
M. Leighton
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My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.
Sadegh Hedayat
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'Every creature has fear,' Jared said. 'Even the non-conscious ones.''No,' Boutin said. 'Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it’s not the same thing. Fear isn’t the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.
John Scalzi