“God helps those who fear Him.”
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“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
“It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.”
“Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.”
“When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'”
“Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.”
“People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.”
“In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.”
“Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.”
“But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.”
“If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.”
“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.”
“An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.”
“Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.”
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
“Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.”
“You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.”
“A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.”
“In the ring, I never really knew fear.”
“Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.”
“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”
“I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.”
“Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.”
“My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.”