Quotes about fear
fear media people
Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media. Helen Prejean
fear atheism ass
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ. Heinrich Heine
fear rain darkness
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless. Henryk Sienkiewicz
fear window-panes people
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
fear health men
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Henry Ward Beecher
fear men thinking
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
fear men evil
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
fear moving men
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
fear men
A man that is afraid is never a man.
fear waiting risk
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form. Henry James
fear inspiration thinking
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
fear passion men
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day. Henry Clay
fear justice faults
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides. Henry Fielding
fearless gold size
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. Johann Kaspar Lavater
fear yesterday waiting
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
fear hate black-and-white
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little. Khaled Hosseini
fear evil doubt
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God. Khalil Gibran
fearless sound passing
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing Jonathan Safran Foer
fear age poverty
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty. Napoleon Hill
fear simple self
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
fear inspiration power
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon Bonaparte
fear pride victory
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride. Og Mandino
fear war alive
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear. Norman Schwarzkopf
fear people bravery
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. Norman Mailer
fear september-11 world
We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards" [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon] Orrin Hatch
fear children mind
Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons. Orison Swett Marden
fear
We lend power to the things we fear!
fear men imagination
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. Oliver Wendell Holmes
fear destiny demon
Everyone fears and courts his own demon. Mason Cooley
fear work law
Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.
fear asking-why guilt
If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?
fear appetite
Fear regulates. Appetite impels.
fear shots adversaries
Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.