3 December 2020 Geraldine Brooks The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix I always have the fear that, if I don’t commit 100 percent to my work, then it’s gonna suffer.
3 December 2020 Alexander Wang I think everyone shares a fear of failure – that you’re only as good as your most recent collection. That’s definitely a fear, but it’s a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
3 December 2020 Charles Rangel The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
3 December 2020 Ginnifer Goodwin But I love being scared. I think you’re brave only when you do things that scare you. I’ve always used fear as a motivator. I’m not sure why.
3 December 2020 Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
3 December 2020 David Wilkerson The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
3 December 2020 Johnny Vegas You can’t be a proper comic unless you’ve been out on stage and felt the fear.
3 December 2020 James K. Polk The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan The record company’s worst fear is that you’ll fall in love or get rich.
3 December 2020 Charisma Carpenter When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you’ll never get back in shape.
3 December 2020 Reese Witherspoon But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
3 December 2020 Bear Grylls Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
3 December 2020 Mira Sorvino We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
3 December 2020 St. Vincent I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it’s all chaos. I call it ‘the dark fear.’ At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
