Fear Quotes

"You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not."

"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."

"Terror made me cruel."

"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything."

"The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear."

"Don't be afraid of your own power."

"I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different."

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

"If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution."

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."

"I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?"

"Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright."

"TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures."

"Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!"

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."

"If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry."

"I have always been afraid of banks."

"I have built my organization upon fear."

"I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name."

"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."

"Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid."

"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."

"These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear."

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

"I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing."

"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them."

"I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger."

"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

"There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips."

"Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years."

"I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right."

"We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread."

"A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it."

"If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it."

"A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear."

"I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge."

"A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced."

"When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good."

"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment."

"I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?"

"I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that."

"I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that."

"Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television."

"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk."

"I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch."

"Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency."