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Fear Quotes


"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."


"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."


"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."


"Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear."


"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."


"I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing."


"It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear."


"It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment."


"Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility."



"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom."


"It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail."


"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."


"Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death."


"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."


"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."


"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."


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


"There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect."


"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."


"One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour."


"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."


"Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."


"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."


"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."


"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,


"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."


"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."


"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became."
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