3 December 2020 Jeremy Renner Fear is just not a part of my life – so much so that if it’s involved in somebody else’s life and they’re close to me, I won’t be around them.
3 December 2020 Anthony Horowitz My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
3 December 2020 Michelle Bachelet There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: ‘this is not happening in my backyard.’
3 December 2020 Katharine Butler Hathaway If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
3 December 2020 Virgil Thomson Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
3 December 2020 Amelia Barr Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
3 December 2020 Gabrielle Union You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it’s not a natural drive – it’s born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
3 December 2020 Robert Falcon Scott Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
3 December 2020 Olive Schreiner No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
3 December 2020 Anthony de Mello 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!
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
3 December 2020 Seth Godin Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
3 December 2020 Julia Child I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
3 December 2020 Laura Schlessinger This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won’t get it back later.
3 December 2020 Andrew Stanton Loneliness is, I think, people’s biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Ferguson Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
3 December 2020 Floyd Patterson Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
3 December 2020 Jerry B. Jenkins I fear it’s because religion is man’s attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else’s claim to have done the same.
3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
3 December 2020 Socrates Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
