“I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.”
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“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.”
“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.”
“Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.”
“Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.”
“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”
“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
“In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!”
“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.”
“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.”
“Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.”
“Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.”
“Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.”
“My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.”
“I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.”
“Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.”
“My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.”
“The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.”
“Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.”