Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim O'Brien

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

Stevie Nicks

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

Stevie Nicks

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Steven Shainberg

You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.

Toni Morrison

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Tom Stoppard

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

Tobias Wolff

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

Tim Ferriss

Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

Tim Ferriss

Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.

Tim Ferriss

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

Tana French

We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

Tana French

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

Tamora Pierce

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

Tamora Pierce

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.

Tamara Mellon

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

Tacitus

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Tacitus

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

Sylvia Plath

Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

Sylvia Plath

Talking about my fears to others feeds it.

Sylvia Plath

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Sylvia Plath

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

Rumi

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Rumi

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Tom Robbins

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

Steve Lacy

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Steve Antin

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

Thomas Carlyle

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Steve Perry

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance

Steve Berry

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

Stephen Hawking

I don't fear God- I fear His believers...

Stephen King

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.