Quotes about fear
fear media people
Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media. Helen Prejean
fear atheism ass
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ. Heinrich Heine
fear rain darkness
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless. Henryk Sienkiewicz
fear window-panes people
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
fear health men
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Henry Ward Beecher
fear men thinking
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
fear men evil
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
fear moving men
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
fear men
A man that is afraid is never a man.
fear waiting risk
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form. Henry James
fear inspiration thinking
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
fear passion men
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day. Henry Clay
fear justice faults
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides. Henry Fielding
fearless gold size
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. Johann Kaspar Lavater
fear yesterday waiting
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
fear thinking people
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.
fear mean race
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
fear-of-the-unknown terrible
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. Joan D. Vinge
fear illusion excuse
If I live by illusions, you live by excuses. Jimi Hendrix
fear people ifs
You can make people do anything if they're afraid. Jim McDermott
fear pain scary
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. Jim Morrison
fear taught action
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears. John McCain
fear
We invent what we love and what we fear. John Irving
fear good masters subject
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
fear involved
At times I am Harold, and at other times Maude. I fear I may become romantically involved with myself
fear sleep men
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak. Ayn Rand
fear conquer-the-world terror
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. Bertrand Russell
fear believe men
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
fear men thinking
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
fear science infancy-is
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
fear giving spurs
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Benjamin Disraeli
fear intelligent speech
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
fear fearless humanity
Fear makes us feel our humanity.