Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

H. P. Lovecraft

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

H. P. Lovecraft

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

H. P. Lovecraft

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Gloria Gaynor

I had a fear of being alone.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair...

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

Francis Quarles

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.

Francis Quarles

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Francis Quarles

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Francis Quarles

A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

Homer

The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

If he was living in fear he would have relayed that message.

Jon Brion

If ever there was a time not to (mess) with the formula, this would be it. But he's fearless. A lot of people have a governor on themselves, usually peer pressure or fear of not being liked. This is a guy that is truly living by his tastes and his beliefs.

Jon Brion

If ever there was a time not to ... (mess) with the formula, this would be it, ... But he's fearless. A lot of people have a governor on themselves, usually peer pressure or fear of not being liked. This is a guy that is truly living by his tastes and his beliefs.

I don't see any front-runner. Nobody has paid any dues. This is a wide-open race. McCain would be a very stable influence - solid, honest, no fear of taking on tough ideas. He could come away from the group, rise to the surface. But does he want to do it?

Jade Jagger

I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.

I fear the worst and hope for the best. His glasses were at the house boat. His cellphone was there. His truck keys, his hat was there. He wouldn't leave without those.

Joichi Ito

I fear that my jokes will be misinterpreted and the irony lost. I fear that someone will take offense. I fear that a post will sound boastful.

Bruce Lee

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.