959 private quotes tagged fear

“The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.” — Alexander Payne

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“Americans have discovered fear.” — Jose Saramago

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“I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.” — Lionel Blue

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“I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.” — Mary Tyler Moore

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“Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.” — Andrew Weil

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“I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.” — Manuel Puig

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“So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.” — Bernard Law Montgomery

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“It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.” — Arthur Henderson

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“Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.” — Francis Quarles

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“Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.” — John Doolittle

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“Fear is a huge thing for older people.” — James Hillman

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“I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.” — Vince Cable

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“The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.” — Jane Smiley

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“When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.” — Ray Comfort

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“The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.” — Terry Bradshaw

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“I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.” — David Walliams

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“It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.” — Franklin P. Jones

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“Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.” — Norman Ralph Augustine

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“My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.” — Travis Barker

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“If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.” — Sherri Shepherd

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“President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.” — Andrea Jung

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“Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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“We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.” — Daniel H. Wilson

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