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Fear Quotes


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


"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."


"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."



"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 shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities."


"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."


"Whatever our fears are, reflect on our deep core beliefs and insecurities."



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


"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."



"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."


"My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer."


"Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you."


"In the world of lovers, there is no fear."


"I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go."


"I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills."


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



"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."


"Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me."


"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."



"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."


"A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run."


"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."


"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."


"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."


"She screamed like an assassin was driving a knife into her stomach.She screamed like a thousand birds were pecking at her flesh.She screamed like the palace was burning down around her."
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