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Fear Quotes
"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."
"If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?"
"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
"We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it."
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."
"Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog."
"There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect."
"If you fear doing something, don't discourage others who are doing it."
"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared."
"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became."
"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."
"Fear is natural, but love is eternal. Never be fearful of love."
"Fear stagnation not adventure."
"I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful."
"Fear is a shadow; it disappears when you bring light to it."
"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."
"The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling."
"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."
"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."
"Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check."
"But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best."
Fear,
"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
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