Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.

Calvin Klein

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Gerry Harvey

I still have a fear about going broke. I always think about it.

Edward Kennedy

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

James Joyce

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Anne Lamott

What an incredible drug fear is.

Albert Bandura

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Albert Camus

This is the century of fear.

Albert Camus

It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

Annie Dillard

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

Daniel Keyes

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Daniel Kahneman

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.

D. H. Lawrence

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

Conor Oberst

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

Daniel Defoe

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

David Mamet

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

David Mamet

Every fear hides a wish.

David Archuleta

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope

David Archuleta

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

e. e. cummings

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

Douglas Horton

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Douglas Horton

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Douglas Horton

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Andre Gide

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Aneurin Bevan

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

Anatole France

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Anais Nin

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

Amanda Peet

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

Anne Carson

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

Andrew Vachss

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

Andrew Wyeth

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

Chuck Palahniuk

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.