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Fear Quotes



"Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope."


"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."


"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."


"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."


"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."


"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."


"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."


"I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale."


"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."


"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."


"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."


"But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear."


"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."


"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."


"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."


"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway."


"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."


"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."


"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."



"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."


"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."


"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."



"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."
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