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Fear Quotes



"We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands."


"It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear."


"Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys."



"My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one."



"Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me."


"I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard."


"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."


"Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing."


"If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear."


"For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties."


"The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him."


"The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something."
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"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts."


"Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves."


"After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event."


"The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear."



"A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still"


"Nothing restricts your success more than your limiting self - beliefs and fears."


"Josey? She heard her mother's voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. 'Please don't tell her I'm here, the woman in the closet said, with a strange sort of desperation. Despite the cold outside, she was wearing a cropped white shirt and tight dark blue jeans that sat low, revealing a tattoo of a broken heart on her hip. Her hair was bleached white - blond with about an inch of silver - sprinkled dark roots showing. Her mascara had run and there were black streaks on her cheeks. She looked drip - dried, like she'd been walking in the rain, though there hadn't."


"Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding."
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