3 December 2020 Marianne Williamson Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
3 December 2020 Oliver Stone Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
3 December 2020 Florence Welch Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
3 December 2020 Lionel Richie Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
3 December 2020 Herodotus It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
3 December 2020 Chanakya He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
3 December 2020 Francis Quarles Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
3 December 2020 Federico Garcia Lorca With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
3 December 2020 George Washington Carver Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
3 December 2020 Al Yankovic In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams All the times I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of a show that’s actually gotten on the air, it’s always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
3 December 2020 Stevie Nicks If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
3 December 2020 Sam Shepard Sides are being divided now. It’s very obvious. So if you’re on the other side of the fence, you’re suddenly anti-American. It’s breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
3 December 2020 Bell Hooks When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
3 December 2020 Victoria Pratt I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it’s quick action and no fear, and sometimes it’s irrational fear. You don’t always know.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
3 December 2020 Roald Dahl A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
