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Fear Quotes
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
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"Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all."
54
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
53
"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."
53
"And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason."
52
"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."
52
"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."
51
"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country."
51
"I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself."
50
"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."
50
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."
49
"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."
49
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
49
"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."
48
"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."
48
"I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that."
48
"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."
48
"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."
48
"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."
48
"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."
47
"Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone."
47
"It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment."
47
"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."
47
"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
47
"Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects."
47
"I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years."
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