959 private quotes tagged fear

“Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.” — Natan Sharansky

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“When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.” — Charisma Carpenter

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“Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.” — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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“Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.” — Jack Dee

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“I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.” — Margot Kidder

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“Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.” — Lionel Richie

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“What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.” — Simon Travaglia

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“I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.” — K. D. Lang

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“I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.” — St. Vincent

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“You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.” — Candace Bushnell

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“I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.” — Nicholas Hoult

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“I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.” — John B. S. Haldane

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“Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.” — Camille Claudel

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“There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.” — Arianna Huffington

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“Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.” — Gerald Jampolsky

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“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear.” — Karl A. Menninger

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“Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.” — T. D. Jakes

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“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” — Saint Augustine

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“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” — Jackson Pollock

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“I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.” — Kevin Bacon

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“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.” — Eugene Ionesco

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“My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.” — Jim Morrison

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“But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.” — Barry Bonds

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“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.” — Malcolm Mclaren

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