Famous Quotes & Sayings

NC WISE has not given us a time frame, ... My fear is that we'll turn ourselves into pretzels to get ready for it and then things will change. I'm not sure the state understands the repercussions.

Maggie Smith

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

Scilla Elworthy

I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'

Scott Eastwood

It's important to face your fears in life. Whatever they may be. Makes us grow. Blessed to be alive.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'

Mare Winningham

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

Pink

For me, there is only love and fear.

David Davis

We are reluctant to talk because of significant fear of retaliation, being disciplined or fired.

We are relieved. We were fearful while they were on the loose because we did not know their agenda.

I see a fear here, and I sense it.

I respect all my opponents, but I fear none.

Ron Wilson

People are fearing him now, and that's what you want to see with Joe. He's a man on a mission. . . . Even though he's not getting points, he's totally controlling the game.

People are fearful of the outlook in general.

Paul Saffo

My nightmare fear is some congressman is going to seize on this and they're going to pass some laws, ... I can just see people overreacting and doing things that would invade people's privacy or tie up the Internet with so much security nonsense that innovation slows down.

Many fear it is the work of a serial killer.

Let me put the fears to rest. The plant is going to play a big role in our future success--and in the success of this community.

Anne Heche

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

Anne Lamott

She lived in fear of ifonic endings.

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.

What I fear is that these numbers are not telling us everything, ... The worst news on the jobs front is yet to come in the next six months, which I think is still going to give room for the Fed to ease.

Alexander Pope

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Debbie Ford

Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

E. Stanley Jones

I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.

E. M. Forster

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.