959 private quotes tagged fear

“Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.” — Vanessa Paradis

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“There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.” — George Osborne

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“We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.” — Andrew Motion

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“You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.” — Anish Kapoor

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“They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.” — Willie Aames

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“I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.” — Clara Schumann

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“Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.” — Bashar al-Assad

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“The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.” — James K. Polk

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“I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.” — Tommy Lee Jones

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“I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.” — Richard Trumka

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“The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.” — Joyce Maynard

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“We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.” — Mitch Daniels

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“I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.” — Greg Kinnear

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“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.” — Natan Sharansky

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“I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.” — Kristen Wiig

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“People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.” — Mary McCarthy

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“I fear only God, all praises to Him.” — Muqtada al Sadr

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“I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.” — Kristen Wiig

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“You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.” — Lawrence Kasdan

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“I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.” — Freida Pinto

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“But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.” — Reese Witherspoon

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“My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.” — Shane Warne

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“The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.” — Warren Farrell

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“The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.” — George Weinberg

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