959 private quotes tagged fear

“I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!” — Camille Pissarro

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“Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.” — Patrick Swayze

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“So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.” — Jesse Jackson

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“To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.” — Steven Brust

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“Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.” — Ricky Williams

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“There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.” — Kiefer Sutherland

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“Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.” — Harlan Coben

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“Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.” — Jeremy Renner

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“As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.” — Cyril Connolly

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“The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.” — David Wilkerson

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“Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.” — Virginia C. Andrews

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“In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.” — Warren Farrell

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“Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.” — Jeffrey Sachs

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“I like to do something I fear.” — Heath Ledger

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“The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.” — Cyril Connolly

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“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.” — Cyril Connolly

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“I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?” — Zbigniew Brzezinski

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“I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.” — David Brainerd

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“In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.” — Anna Jameson

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“So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.” — Steve Irwin

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“I don't have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing.” — Billy Bob Thornton

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“It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.” — Giordano Bruno

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“I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.” — Harlan Coben

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“I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.” — Jack Nicklaus

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