959 private quotes tagged fear

“I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.” — Florence Welch

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“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.” — Roald Dahl

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“Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.” — Leona Lewis

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“My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.” — Trey Parker

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“Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.” — Bill Owens

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“The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.” — Liza Minnelli

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“There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.” — Roger Caras

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“We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.” — Robert Toombs

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“In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.” — Al Yankovic

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“Who sows fear, reaps weapons.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.” — J. J. Abrams

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“People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.” — Dominic Monaghan

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“Respect and fear are two different things.” — Jane Smiley

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“With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.” — Federico Garcia Lorca

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“I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.” — Helen Reddy

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“I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.” — Mos Def

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“The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.” — Steve Perry

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“I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.” — Thomas Friedman

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“There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.” — Emmanuel Teney

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“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.” — Eli Whitney

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“He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.” — Bobby Bowden

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“You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.” — Bear Grylls

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“Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.” — Bear Grylls

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“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.” — Julien Benda

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