Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luciano Pavarotti

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

Louis de Bernieres

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

Louis D. Brandeis

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Lord Chesterfield

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Lord Chesterfield

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

Lord Chesterfield

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is fear there is no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

Gail Carson Levine

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

Fridtjof Nansen

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Fred Willard

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

Julie Kagawa

I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

Julie Klausner

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

Julian Smith

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Josh Billings

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Karl Jaspers

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

Karl Kraus

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

Julius Caesar

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

Julius Caesar

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

Julius Caesar

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

Julius Caesar

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Otto von Bismarck

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Otto von Bismarck

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

Kathryn Stockett

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

June Jordan

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Maria Semple

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

Paul Klee

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them...

Paul Krugman

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Patrick Carman

She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.

Maggie Stiefvater

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.

Maggie Stiefvater

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.