Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Daniel Handler

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Craig Ferguson

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

Craig Ferguson

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

Coco Chanel

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Elizabeth I

As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.

Elias Canetti

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Elias Canetti

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

Alanis Morissette

Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction...

Blaise Pascal

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Blaise Pascal

There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.

Kevin Chamberlin

The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance.

Jeanne Moreau

When you're a mother and you have a son, you hide your feminine side. It's the fear of incest, Oedipus.

Michaela Watkins

When I got 'Trophy Wife', the first fear is, 'This could go away;' the second is, 'It's here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.'

Tina Brown

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

Charles R. Swindoll

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

We have significant problems on the horizon. It's $15 worth of fear and $15 worth of speculation. The only part of the marketplace that's shrinking, profit-wise, is retail.

Diane Keaton

I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.

William Shakespeare

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

William Shakespeare

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

William Shakespeare

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

William Shakespeare

It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

William Shakespeare

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Andrea Bocelli

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

Norman Reedus

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

We've always said that fear is the main problem. And that needs to be allayed.

We respected him, but we (weren't) in fear of him.

Katie Featherston

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

Kenneth Fisher

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.

Pat Roberts

When we do, then the people of Iraq will no longer live in fear of his return. ... You can see it in their faces, you can hear it in their voices.

When we first got to him, with his color, we feared he might not make it.

Bob Woodward

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.