Quotes about fear
fearless call-me
They call me Fearless Felix. Felix Baumgartner
fear security
There can be no security where there is fear. Felix Frankfurter
fear littles stage
A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready. Faith Hill
fear men care
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. F. H. Bradley
fear war men
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace Ezra Pound
fear wind feet
See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back; Ezra Pound
fear lying believe
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie. Ezra Pound
fear writing optimistic
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Ezra Pound
fear heart humble
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man." Ezra Taft Benson
fear pride men
Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God. Ezra Taft Benson
fear men promise
A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises. Euripides
fear parenting grieving
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. Francis Bacon
fear mind desire
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. Francis Bacon
fear smell scent
Vinegar: that's what fear smells like. Jennifer Egan
fear long world
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. Jean Rhys
fear faults shame
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. Jean de La Fontaine
fear hate response
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates. Graham Greene
fear needs world
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. Harriet Lerner
fear weapons
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us. Ian Rush
fear thinking light
It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light. Hugh Prather
fear politics mobilization
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. Huey Newton
fear animal pigs
We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked. Huey Newton
fear self pessimism
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. Howard Zinn
fear weapons social
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. Howard Zinn
fear footprint frightened
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. Horace
fear survival emotion
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. Hannah Arendt
fear past
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. Guy de Maupassant
fear gains prove
We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service. Guy Finley
fearless days-to-come plans
Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come. Guy Finley
fear life-changing understanding
Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes. Guy Finley
fear needs pride
He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride John Bunyan
fear heart persuasion tongue truth
He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue John Ruskin
fear people may
If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them. George Bernard Shaw