Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Stiefvater

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

Haruki Murakami

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

Hans Selye

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Karl Kraus

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

Julius Caesar

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

Julius Caesar

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

Julius Caesar

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Otto von Bismarck

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Otto von Bismarck

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

Kathryn Stockett

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

William Faulkner

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

William Faulkner

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Ronald Reagan

Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.

Saint Francis de Sales

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

Zora Neale Hurston

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Zora Neale Hurston

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Samuel Johnson

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

Samuel Johnson

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

Samuel Johnson

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.

Vivien Leigh

Every single night I'm nervous.

Vivien Leigh

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Virgil

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

Virgil

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Wayne Dyer

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Wayne Dyer

Hit the delete button every time fear appears.

William Blake

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?

Samuel Richardson

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

William Golding

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

William Barclay

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

Washington Irving

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Voltaire

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.