“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.”
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“I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.”
“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.”
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”
“Fear is the mother of foresight.”
“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”
“Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.”
“The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.”
“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
“A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.”
“My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.”
“I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.”
“I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.”
“Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.”
“Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.”
“I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.”
“Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.”
“There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.”
“As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.”
“My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.”
“We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.”
“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.”
“You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.”