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Fear Quotes


"Fear stagnation, embrace change."


"The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage."


"I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)"


"I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher."


"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."


"There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."


"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."


"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."


"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."


"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
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"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."


"The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear."


"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."


"Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based."


"The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him."


"Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much."


"In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it."


"She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo."


"It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man."


"When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer."


"Because something inside of my heart is ripping apart and it feels like fear, it tastes like panic and anxiety and desperation and I don't know how to understand th image in front of me. I don't want to see Warner like this. I don't want to think of him as anything other than a monster.This isn't right."


"Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure."


"Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally."
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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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"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."


"Fear sees, even when eyes are closed."


"Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue."
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