Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

Dean Koontz

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

Dean Koontz

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Dean Koontz

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

Dean Koontz

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

Dean Koontz

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

Bob Dylan

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Boris Pasternak

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

Brigitte Bardot

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

Brennan Manning

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Anwar Sadat

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

Edmund Burke

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Denis Waitley

Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

Deb Caletti

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Edgar Cayce

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

Ed Wood

You know, it's an interesting thing when you consider. The Earth people who can think are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead.

Elizabeth May

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

Eliza Haywood

most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass ...

Edwin Markham

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

Edmund Waller

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

Edna O'Brien

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Edna O'Brien

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Benjamin Franklin

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Arthur Koestler

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.