Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
~By Francis Bacon ~
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
~By Douglas Horton ~
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
~By Viktor E. Frankl ~
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
~By Bram Fischer ~
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
~By Henry Beston ~
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
~By Warren Farrell ~
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
~By Max Frisch ~
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
~By Babe Ruth ~
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
~By Albert Ellis ~
I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
~By Howard Coble ~
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Death is a fearful thing.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
~By Karl Liebknecht ~
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
~By Adam Smith ~
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.
~By Terence Fisher ~
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.
~By David Cronenberg ~
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
~By Charles Frohman ~
This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.
~By John Goodman ~
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
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.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
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.
~By Clara Barton ~
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
True nobility is exempt from fear.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
~By Donald Cargill ~
I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
~By Georges Simenon ~
There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
~By Anthony Rapp ~
Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
~By Robert Crumb ~
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
~By Joel Osteen ~
Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
~By Julien Green ~
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
~By Ruby Dee ~
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
~By John Bruton ~
We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.
~By George Lincoln Rockwell ~
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
~By David Duchovny ~
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
~By Louise Brown ~
Let us banish fear.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
~By George W. Bush ~
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
~By Edward Albert ~
Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?
~By John Robinson ~
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
~By Juan Williams ~
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
~By Edward Young ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
~By Marvin Gaye ~
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
~By Andre Gide ~
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.
~By Fred Barnes ~
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
~By Taylor Swift ~
I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
~By Carly Simon ~
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
~By Stendhal ~
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
~By Benjamin Whichcote ~
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
~By King Hussein I ~
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
~By Barbara Deming ~
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
~By Julie Taymor ~
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.
~By Robert Mallet ~
There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
~By Ben Stiller ~
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
~By Haniel Long ~
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.
~By Lillian Russell ~
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
~By Robert Frost ~
There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.
~By Francis Walsingham ~
The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
~By Dennis Kucinich ~
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
~By Stevie Wonder ~
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
~By Elizabeth I ~
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.
~By Pat Sajak ~
Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.
~By Timothy Findley ~
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
~By Alex North ~
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.
~By David McCallum ~
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
~By Karl Shapiro ~
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