Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Owens

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Jean de la Bruyere

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Nicolas Roeg

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Fear comes not from God but from the evil one.

Samuel Butler

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Kathleen Edwards

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

When we're in shock, we tend to see and fear the worst. When we see a few hundred, we think there are 10 times that number that we just don't see. It seems to be a phenomenon that goes with shock.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

Aldous Huxley

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Aldous Huxley

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Albert Einstein

Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

Alexander Lowen

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

Alexander Lowen

Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

Rene Russo

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

Takeo Spikes

We want to become great, ... We want to become one of those units that smothers offenses. We want to be so good people fear us.

Adolf Hitler

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Abu Bakar Bashir

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

Robert Anthony

We fear the thing we want the most.

Greg Iles

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

Geoff Johns

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.

George Lucas

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.

William Gilbert

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear.

Tim Cahill

We've got no one to fear, why should we fear anyone,

Aberjhani

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.

A. C. Benson

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Adam Smith

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Gopnik

The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.