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Quotes About Fears

Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The press spread fears about the effects of prolonged cycling. Overenthusiastic cyclists might develop 'bicycle hump' by leaning too long over the handlebars; acute cases of 'bicycle foot' and even 'bicycle face' were reported
~ Peter Ackroyd
there are no haunted houses...only haunted people
~ Peter Ackroyd
The shadow of sharks is the shadow of death, and they call forth dim ultimate fears. Yet there is something holy in their silence.
~ Peter Matthiessen
All myths originate with truth, sometimes it is to raise the influence of a religion by pacifying fears. Sometimes the reality is far more frightening.
~ Unknown
This is how we understand. We wore your flaws. We wore your fears. We made your mistakes.
~ David Levithan
Like religion, politics traffics in and plays upon our deepest hopes and fears. And like religion, authoritharian political propaganda works by first making us feel endangered and then offering us a way to escape form our feelings of helplessness.
~ David Livingstone Smith
Abbott was all over the shop on emissions trading. He feared destruction at the ballot box if the Opposition blocked Rudd. "The government's emissions trading scheme is the perfect political response to the public's fears," he had said in late July 2009.
~ David Marr
The thing I feared was no longer my parents' authority over me but that they might haul out into the open their own intimate fears, their melancholy and regrets.
~ Zadie Smith
The thing I feared was no longer my parents' authority over me but that they might haul out into the open their own intimate fears, their melancholy and regrets.
~ Zadie Smith
I sometimes had fears that at some point, not many years in the future, we would converge upon the exact same age.
~ Zadie Smith
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears – dissolution, disappearance. Even
~ Zadie Smith
it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance
~ Zadie Smith
Our bashful fears, our silent interjections, our blushes, as we met each other's eyes, were expressive with an eloquence, a boyish charm, which I have ceased to feel. One must remain young, no doubt, to understand youth.
~ Honore de Balzac
Tous vos défauts, vos terreurs, vos petitesses ajoutent je ne sais quelle grâce á votre âme.
~ Honore de Balzac
A heartfelt smile. And even if...it's just for a moment...my pain...my fears...my sorrows - let them all...sleep now. For this moment...just for this fleeting moment-
~ Unknown
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
It's a unique indictment of the human condition -- we don't just conquer our fears, we market them.
~ Unknown
Before long your fears become adult ones: crushing debts and responsibilities, sick parents and sick kids, the possibility of dying unremembered or unloved. Fears of not being the person you were so certain you'd grow up to be.
~ Craig Davidson
I'd lie with the moonlight angling through the backyard maple to cast a fretwork of shadows on the wall and remember the ghost of my old fears, although I no longer saw the shadows as the skeletal hands of a beast come to claim my soul
~ Craig Davidson
But with what wonder has the season come? Its treasure lies in earthen ships, that carry dreams across the foam. And how your memory of Sarah rapes the fleshly heart that once bore scenes, now veiled in smoky stains of tears; it cries as on its crutches leans, and ever fills itself with fears. Be born anew to taste the sky Lay waste cocoon and upwind fly.
~ Unknown
I remember once going to see my agent and going up the stairs to his office to hear him screaming down the phone, He's not a vet, he's an actor!' and that confirmed all my worst fears.
~ Christopher Timothy
Via social media, I reached out, asking about relationships, dreams, hopes, fears, the whole gambit, and the stories that really resonated with me, I wrote songs about.
~ Ne-Yo
I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.
~ Lisa Kleypas