Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Ventura

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

H. P. Lovecraft

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

H. P. Lovecraft

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

H. G. Wells

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

George Herbert

Fear kills more than disease.

George Herbert

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

Jean Anouilh

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Jay McInerney

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Candice Swanepoel

A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.

Budd Schulberg

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Joseph Joubert

Fear loves the idea of danger.

Kristin Hannah

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

Natalie Babbitt

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

Nancy Lopez

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Keith Barry

TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!

Katherine Mansfield

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

Katherine Paterson

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

Karl A. Menninger

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear.

Karl A. Menninger

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

Karen Thompson Walker

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Kim Gordon

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. (Psalms 64:1)

Donte Whitner

For the next three games there's no fear of a letdown. It's all about what we do. If we go out and we play good, we win. And if we don't play good, we lose. We're not going to let that happen.

Gloria Steinem

... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

Giordano Bruno

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

Giordano Bruno

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

Harry S Truman

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Immanuel Kant

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

J. K. Rowling

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

J. K. Rowling

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

H. L. Mencken

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.