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Fear Quotes
"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."
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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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"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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"To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God."
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"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear."
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
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"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."
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"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."
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"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."
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"When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good."
Fear,
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"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
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"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
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"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"
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"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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"Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them."
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"The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."
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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
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"Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create."
40
"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties."
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"It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests."
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"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
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"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
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"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
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"Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead."
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"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."
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"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."
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"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."
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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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"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
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"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."
39
"From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat."
Fear,
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"Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived."
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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
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"I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing."
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"Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth."
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"I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether."
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"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."
Fear,
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