Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Paolini

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Christopher McDougall

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

Angelina Jolie

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

Anne Sexton

Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly ...

Anne Rice

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

Anne Rice

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.

Anne Rice

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

Anne Rice

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

Anne Rice

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

Andrew Lang

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Ambrose Burnside

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

Ambrose Bierce

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Ambrose Bierce

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

Ambrose Bierce

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

Ambrose Bierce

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

Ambrose Bierce

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

Alice Walker

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Alice Walker

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Ally Carter

Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.

Andrea Bocelli

I have big, big stage fright.

Aesop

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

Aesop

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Aeschylus

Fear is stronger than arms.

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

Simon Wiesenthal

We thought we were going mad, ... Perhaps we feared (or hoped) we were mad already.

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

Gary Kemp

I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

Eric Holder

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

Kapil Sharma

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

Jane Addams

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

James Wolfe

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

Janet Frame

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.