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Fear Quotes
"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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"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Fear,
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"Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects."
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"We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less."
Fear,
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"Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished."
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"I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel."
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"If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all."
Fear,
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"We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen."
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"She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on."
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"What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out."
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"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly."
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"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal."
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"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
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"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."
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"Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary."
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"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."
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"It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear."
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"So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear."
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"Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters."
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"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."
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"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."
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"I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer."
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"I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."
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"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
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"A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run."
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"One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you."
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"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."
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