Fear Quotes
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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Violence is the instinctive response to fear.
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
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To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
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Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
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Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
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I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
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For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
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Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.
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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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Fear attracts attack.
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With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
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A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.
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When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.
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Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.
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I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.
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We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.
