Famous Quotes & Sayings

James A. Baldwin

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

Jacqueline Carey

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Fulton J. Sheen

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Franz Grillparzer

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

Jeanette Winterson

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

Jeanette Winterson

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

Jeanette Winterson

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

Jim Copeland

It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.

Jewel

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

Jerzy Kosinski

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Jeremy Taylor

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Jennifer Weiner

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

Georges Bernanos

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Georges Bataille

To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.

George S. Patton

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

George S. Patton

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

George S. Patton

When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.

Jerry Pournelle

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

Javier Bardem

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

Jason Mraz

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

Eugene Delacroix

As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing...

Esperanza Spalding

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

Ernest Hemingway

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

Ernest Hemingway

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

Ethel Merman

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

Ethel Waters

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Graham Greene

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Harriet Lerner

Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us.

Ian Rush

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.