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Fear Quotes


"The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are."


"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."


"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."


"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."


"I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher."


"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."


"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly."


"To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God."


"Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure."


"My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists."


"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."


"I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred."


"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."


"I am pain stricken to say that, various "educational institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom."


"You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself."
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"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."


"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."


"It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see nothing. All I knew about the well was its frightening depth. It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness, as if all the world's darkness had been boiled down to their ultimate density."


"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."


"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."
Fear,


"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."


"Fear stagnation not adventure."


"To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster."


"Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check."


"Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running 'from' something. Fear harnessed compels us to run 'to' something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles."


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