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Fear Quotes



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


"Fear stagnation, embrace change."


"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'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself."



"We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen."


"I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction."


"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."


"What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out."


"When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer."


"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."


"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear."


"His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running on full choke. That there was no sense at all in what he was thinking made not a whit of difference in the dark. In the dark, rationality seemed stupid and logic a dream. In the dark he thought with his skin."


"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."


"Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog."


"I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful."



"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."


"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."


"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."


"And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals."


"The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff."


"Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure."


"Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally."
Fear,


"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator."


"Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone."


"That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment."


"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."
Fear,


"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."
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