959 private quotes tagged fear

“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.” — Ovid

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“Fear is excitement without breath.” — Robert Heller

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“If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.” — Indira Gandhi

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“At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.” — William Shenstone

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“An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.” — Jean Anouilh

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“There is a fear of emotion in tennis.” — Andy Murray

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“Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.” — Cyril Connolly

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“I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” — William James

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“As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work it's about not having enough money.” — Paul Giamatti

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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James A. Baldwin

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“We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus

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“He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.” — Publilius Syrus

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“My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.” — David Mamet

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“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.” — Huey Newton

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“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.” — Bruce Barton

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“Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?” — Garrett Hardin

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“There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.” — Joseph Joubert

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“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!” — Anthony de Mello

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