“Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.”
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“Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.”
“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”
“Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.”
“Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.”
“My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.”
“Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.”
“Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.”
“I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.”
“I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.”
“Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.”
“I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.”
“Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.”
“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”
“To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.”
“Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.”
“Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.”
“I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.”
“I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.”
“I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!”
“Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.”
“Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.”
“So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.”
“I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?”