959 private quotes tagged fear

“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.” — Warren Farrell

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“My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.” — George W. Bush

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“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?” — Joseph Conrad

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“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.” — Jesse Jackson

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“I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.” — Dean Koontz

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“No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.” — Brad Henry

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“To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.” — Keith Richards

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“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

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“You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.” — Doug Coupland

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“Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“When desire dies, fear is born.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.” — Ken Burns

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“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.” — George Matthew Adams

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“Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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“Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?” — Anna Quindlen

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“People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.” — Abu Bakr

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“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” — Tecumseh

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“To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.” — Homer

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“The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.” — David Icke

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“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.” — Andrew Jackson

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“The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.” — Abu Bakr

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