Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

Terry Goodkind

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Renata Adler

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Swami Vivekananda

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?

Sri Aurobindo

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

Rupert Murdoch

I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.

Thomas Jefferson

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

Robin Hobb

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Robert Moses

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Wally Amos

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

Wally Lamb

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

Washington Irving

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Voltaire

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire

Fear could never make virtue.

William Ernest Henley

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

William Stafford

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

William Butler Yeats

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

William Butler Yeats

When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

Walter Russell

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Walter Russell

Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.

Walter Savage Landor

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Walter Scott

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Walter Scott

The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way; But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.

Walter Hill

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

William Morris

Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

Winston Churchill

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.