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“In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.”
“So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.”
“I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'”
“Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.”
“Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.”
“I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.”
“I like to do something I fear.”
“In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.”
“It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.”
“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”
“A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.”
“The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.”
“Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.”
“Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.”
“I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.”
“Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.”
“The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.”
“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.”
“As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.”
“There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.”
“The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.”
“Let them hate so long as they fear.”
“The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.”