959 private quotes tagged fear

“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.” — Ruby Dee

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“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.” — Salman Rushdie

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“We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.” — Francois Hollande

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“I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.” — Florence Welch

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“Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.” — J. G. Ballard

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“Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.” — Florence Welch

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“Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.” — Tippi Hedren

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“Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.” — Marvin Gaye

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“Fear is always a good motivator.” — James Dyson

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“You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.” — Rachel McAdams

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“Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.” — Gouverneur Morris

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“That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.” — Steve Irwin

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“You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.” — Beth Ditto

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“I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.” — Olympia Dukakis

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“Fear controls you.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.” — Virgil Thomson

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“As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.” — Beth Ditto

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“Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.” — Quintilian

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“Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.” — King Abdullah II

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“What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.” — Michael Sheen

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“You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.” — Charlize Theron

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“For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.” — John Frusciante

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“Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.” — Craig Ferguson

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