Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Eliot

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

George Eliot

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

George Eliot

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

George Eliot

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.

Christopher Columbus

It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts. This letter, the first and rarest of all printed Americana, describes the scenery and the natives of Hispaniola.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Christian Bale

I have a fear of being boring.

George Sewell

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Orwell

Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

George Orwell

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

George Orwell

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

George R. R. Martin

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

George R. R. Martin

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

George R. R. Martin

The man who fears losing has already lost.

George R. R. Martin

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

George R. R. Martin

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Jean de la Bruyere

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

Garth Nix

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

Garth Nix

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Frank Sinatra

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Fernando Pessoa

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.