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Fear Quotes
"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
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"It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail."
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"I want to do everything to you, all at once, he muttered. 'I want to stroke you, fuck you, hold you down, lift you up, pin you, take you. I want you to take me. Lord and Lady, Sophie, I don't know that I have any gentleness in me tonight."
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"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say."
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"I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt."
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"The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage."
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"I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."
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"My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists."
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"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."
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"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."
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"Fear sees, even when eyes are closed."
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"It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood."
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"This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it."
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"Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like cat pee, no doubt from the adrenalin. However hard you wash, it won't come off. It smothers you, as your muscles become frozen with acid and your mind paralysed by despair."
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"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."
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"Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check."
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"But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best."
Fear,
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"Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?"
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"That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment."
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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
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"Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it."
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"Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much."
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"That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness."
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"Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you."
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"That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else."
Fear,
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"Because something inside of my heart is ripping apart and it feels like fear, it tastes like panic and anxiety and desperation and I don't know how to understand th image in front of me. I don't want to see Warner like this. I don't want to think of him as anything other than a monster.This isn't right."
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"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."
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"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
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"It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers."
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