Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Reich

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

Alexis de Tocqueville

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Alexandre Dumas

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Marc Morial

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Cate Blanchett

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

Ludwig Borne

Let us have no care, but be glad of the approaching springtime of the peoples. Let us have no fear of the movement into the open.

Harbhajan Singh

I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

Tina Brown

The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.

Willa Fitzgerald

I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.

William John Wills

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

Emile M. Cioran

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Elaine Stritch

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

Eva Figes

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Dennis Christopher

Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

Victoria Osteen

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

Adam Rapp

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

David Chang

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

John Charles Polanyi

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Ira Sachs

I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

Louis Leterrier

My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.

Linda Sue Park

If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

Fear that man who fears not God.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.