Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Bernard Beckett

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Sarah Hall

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

Aldous Huxley

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Aldous Huxley

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Albert Einstein

Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

Alexander Lowen

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

Alexander Lowen

Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

Rene Russo

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

Takeo Spikes

We want to become great, ... We want to become one of those units that smothers offenses. We want to be so good people fear us.

Adolf Hitler

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Bill Owens

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Jean de la Bruyere

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Orison Swett Marden

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

Bobby Johnson

We still have a great opportunity. I don't think our guys are going to let that pass by without putting in the effort. I have no fear at all that they won't come out and work.

Geoff Johns

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.

George Lucas

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

William Gilbert

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

Tim Cahill

We've got no one to fear, why should we fear anyone,

Aberjhani

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Joseph Stiglitz

The question is whether some of the fears of last year will be realized this year. There is strong reason to worry.

Robert Anthony

We fear the thing we want the most.

Greg Iles

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

David Chang

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

John Charles Polanyi

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night

Ira Sachs

I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

Louis Leterrier

My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.