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Fear Quotes
"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy."
48
"Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone."
Fear,
47
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
46
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
45
"There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them."
44
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
44
"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country."
44
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
44
"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
43
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."
42
"That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo."
42
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
41
"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."
40
"Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone."
40
"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."
40
"I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself."
40
"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
40
"I am pain stricken to say that, various "educational institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom."
40
"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
39
"There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers."
39
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
39
"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them."
39
"I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities."
39
"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
38
"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."
38
"I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go."
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