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Fear Quotes


"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."



"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."


"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."


"If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared."



"It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again."


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


"Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise."


"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."


"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."


"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."


"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."


"There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."



"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."



"I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey."


"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."


"Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary."


"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."


"If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves."


"She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo."


"We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer."
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"New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans."


"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."



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


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



"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side."


"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."



"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."



"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."



"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
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