959 private quotes tagged fear

“I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.” — Laura Marling

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“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.” — Indra Devi

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“Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.” — Francis Quarles

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“Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.” — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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“Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.” — Sebastian Junger

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“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.” — Francis Beaumont

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“I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.” — Shalom Harlow

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“People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.” — Sade Adu

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“For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.” — Hugh Grant

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“If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.” — Brit Hume

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“I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.” — Arabella Weir

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“We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.” — Robert Trout

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“I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.” — Edvard Munch

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“We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.” — Christiane Amanpour

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“Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.” — Andrew Stanton

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“With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.” — Cathy Freeman

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“Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.” — Edward Albert

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“My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.” — Anthony Horowitz

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“How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.” — Ehud Olmert

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“My only fear is the unknown.” — David Blaine

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“I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.” — Dean Inge

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“I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.” — Matthew Fox

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“The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.” — John Stossel

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“Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.” — Polly Toynbee

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“When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.” — John Stossel

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