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

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.

Barbara Deming

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

Berthold Auerbach

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Benjamin Graham

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

She's no longer fearful of the judicial system.

O My servants! there is no fear for you this day, nor shall you grieve.

Should I be in fear of my own life?

She has no fear of anything. I could picture her skydiving, I could picture her doing anything. She is fearless, which is good. Sometimes it can bad, but it's more good than it is ever bad.

Bruce Barton

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Britney Spears

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

Ben Okri

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

Barbara Kingsolver

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Arthur Koestler

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

Charles Bukowski

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

There is a lot of fear when an acquisition takes place. Most people are fiddling around with their resumes on their computers.

Vince Carter

When it was all about V.C. the Raptors played with fear, and that's not how you win games.

We used to joke about Jerry Bailey's rail pass. He was an inside rider. That's where the fearless riders go. It's the shortest way around the race track - and the most dangerous.

Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Aristotle

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Aristotle

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.