Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eartha Kitt

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

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.

Mountain lions, I do not believe, have a healthy fear of man because they are not hunted.

Ron Gardenhire

Maybe we can put some fear in them, They have a single-digit lead (over Cleveland) now, so you know they're starting to feel the effects. And that's half the battle, to see how people handle things.

Elbert Hubbard

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

Elbert Hubbard

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

Elbert Hubbard

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every day do something that frightens you.

Eileen Caddy

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.

Edvard Munch

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

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.

Ben Jonson

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Elizabeth David

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

Deepak Chopra

There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.

Dirk Benedict

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Love allows you to dream. Fear allows you to pursue your dreams.

Madame de Stael

Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Scout was very fearful of people at first. He's come so far, I'm so proud of him.

Chief Joseph

She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (her relatives).

Chief Joseph

She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that harm would be done to her sister in Guatemala, or once she got to the United States that her mother would be harmed.

Edgar Cayce

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

Ed Wood

You know, it's an interesting thing when you consider. The Earth people who can think are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead.

Elizabeth May

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

Eliza Haywood

most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass ...

Edwin Markham

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

Edmund Waller

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

Edna O'Brien

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Edna O'Brien

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.