Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbra Streisand

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Arthur Golden

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Arthur C. Clarke

'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

Arthur C. Clarke

Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Arundhati Roy

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Anthony Trollope

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Derrick Bell

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Demian Bichir

I'm an actor who's accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

Demi Lovato

I want to be fearless.

Demi Lovato

Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.

We fear there's an overwhelming likelihood some people will be left out in the cold.

We fear that the motivation was identity theft but we're hoping that we stopped it in time.

We fear that doing what they want will require every router and every switch in an IT system to be replaced.

We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.

Katy Perry

My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

We know he's good, but sometimes he wins and in others is 16th. He has such a light touch on the rails and is fearless in the air. He is getting better every week.

Robert Webb

UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.

Abraham Lincoln

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Walter Bagehot

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Jules Verne

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

Jon Hurwitz

I think 'Oz' is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, that's pretty intense.

Robert Reich

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

Alexis de Tocqueville

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Alexandre Dumas

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Marc Morial

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Cate Blanchett

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

Ludwig Borne

Let us have no care, but be glad of the approaching springtime of the peoples. Let us have no fear of the movement into the open.

Bret Easton Ellis

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

Bram Stoker

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

Bob Dylan

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Boris Pasternak

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?