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Quotes About Fears

Racism is especially useful when channeling the economic fears and anger of Whites away from employers and toward out-groups who are seen as competitors for scarce jobs, education, and housing.
~ Michael Parenti
Nothing in my experience led me to believe this novel form of consciousness originated outside me; it seems just as plausible, and surely more parsimonious, to assume it was a product of my brain, just like the ego it supplanted. Yet this by itself strikes me as a remarkable gift: that we can let go of so much—the desires, fears, and defenses of a lifetime!—without suffering complete annihilation.
~ Michael Pollan
... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.
~ George Eliot
Most people don't really understand why love makes us vulnerable, or open. It's because love, to be fully expressed and through your being, begins to eliminate all the fears, all the insecurities and all the anxieties that are inconsistent with itself.
~ Betty Bethards
Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called "strange quarks," which could, theoretically, interact with other subatomic particles and propagate uncontrollably. If you are reading this, that hasn't happened. Finding
~ Bill Bryson
Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called "strange quarks," which could, theoretically, interact with other subatomic particles and propagate uncontrollably. If you are reading this, that hasn't happened.
~ Bill Bryson
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
~ Bill Watterson
Sleepwalking? Nightmare? Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
~ Bill Watterson
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears Take the rag away from your face Now ain't the time for your tears.
~ Bob Dylan
But all the time one and the same boundlessly identical life fills the universe and is renewed every hour in countless combinations and transformations. Here you have fears about whether you will resurrect, yet you already resurrected when you were born, and you didn't notice it.
~ Boris Pasternak
But all the time one and the same boundlessly identical life fills the universe and is renewed every hour in countless combinations and transformations. Here you have fears about whether you will resurrect, yet you already resurrected when you were born, and you didn't notice it.
~ Boris Pasternak
You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears amd alarms.
~ Bram Stoker
all we have is people, people with their messy indefinites, their changes and inconsistencies, their desires and fears, their acts that echo down the years and change the world.
~ Julie Cohen
Throughout history, wars were won and lost based on maps — who had the best maps, who had the inaccurate ones, who owned the boundary lines, who knew the terrain. And I knew the terrain of my family intimately, our private fears, our embarrassing weaknesses, our cached secrets.
~ Justina Chen
All the doings of mankind, their wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys, and varied pursuits, form the motley subject of my book.
~ Juvenal
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you
~ Kahlil Gibran
Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images. It is addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.
~ Stuart Hall
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
~ Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
~ Francis Bacon
How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors
~ Bradford Morrow
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
~ Bram Stoker
Yes, we are all conspiracy theorists with our own stories, constantly filling in data gaps with our fears and insecurities.
~ Brene Brown
The Lord is fine-tuned to the hates and loves, disappointments and delights, brokenness and togetherness, the fears, joys, and sorrows of each of us.
~ Brennan Manning
petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
~ Henry David Thoreau