Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Smith

Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.

Margaret Chase Smith

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

Margaret Bourke-White

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

Margaret Deland

if you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear ...

Laird Barron

He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

Paul Johnson

A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

L'Wren Scott

The sooner you start being fearless, the better.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

Louis L'Amour

It is better ... to fear a little. One is cautious then.

Louis L'Amour

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

Lorrie Moore

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Michael Dolan

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.

Michael Cunningham

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Michael Crichton

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

Michael Crichton

We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

Michael Crichton

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

Michael Crichton

Social control is best managed through fear.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

Mary Baker Eddy

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Nicole Scherzinger

It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

Nick Hornby

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.

Marvin Gaye

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

P. D. James

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

Ovid

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Ovid

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

Ovid

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Ovid

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Ovid

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Marya Mannes

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

Marya Hornbacher

In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

Mark Helprin

When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.