Fear Quotes

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

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

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.