Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jo Bonner

I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale.

Pierre Beaumarchais

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.

I didn't want them to play (with fear).

Ken Hitchcock

I don't know whether it's the fear of getting embarrassed or whatever but we've got a lot of competitive guys and we really love to play in these type of games.

I do not think those fears are justified.

I do not think any person's telephone conversations should be monitored. Everyone should have the right to communicate without fear.

I do not want to generate fear unnecessarily,

Alan Shearer

I am fearing the worst, unfortunately - I have been injured before plenty of times so I know the scenario and I haven't got a great hope.

I am in fear that these assaults have risen to the level where one of us is going to be seriously injured or even killed. Please do something before it's too late.

Benjamin Disraeli

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

C. S. Lewis

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

Bryant H. McGill

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Carroll Quigley

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Anwar Sadat

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

Edmund Burke

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Eckhart Tolle

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

Eckhart Tolle

Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.

Eckhart Tolle

A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.

Eckhart Tolle

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Elie Metchnikoff

Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

Edward R. Murrow

There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.

Edward R. Murrow

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

E. W. Howe

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

Colin Powell

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

Stephen Harper

We should live without fear in our cities.

Gary Ross

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

Allison Tolman

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

Amanda Harlech

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Seamus Heaney

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

Steven Millhauser

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.