“China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.”
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“It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!”
“Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.”
“I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.”
“There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.”
“Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.”
“Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.”
“We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.”
“I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.”
“I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.”
“If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.”
“It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.”
“Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.”
“Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.”
“In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.”
“Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.”
“I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.”
“For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.”
“My only fear is the unknown.”
“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.”
“I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.”
“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”
“Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.”
“People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.”