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Quotes About Fears

With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
~ Italo Calvino
Tutto l'immaginabile può essere sognato ma anche il sogno più inatteso è un rebus che nasconde un desiderio, oppure il suo rovescio, una paura. Le città come i sogni sono costruite di desideri e di paure, anche se il filo del loro discorso è segreto, le loro regole assurde, le prospettive ingannevoli, e ogni cosa ne nasconde un'altra.
~ Italo Calvino
Le città come i sogni sono costruite di desideri e di paure,anche se il filo del loro discorso è segreto,le loro regole assurde,le prospettive ingannevoli, e ogni cosa ne nasconde un'altra.
~ Italo Calvino
Man is occupied and has been persistently occupied since his separate evolution, with three kinds of struggle: first with the massive, unintelligent forces of nature, heat and cold, winds, rivers, matter and energy; secondly, with the things closer to him, animals and plants, his own body, its health and disease; and lastly, with his desires and fears, his imaginations and stupidities.
~ Unknown
it is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That's the way to soften up a democracy.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
it is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide
~ J. Edgar Hoover
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
~ J. J. Abrams
The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
~ Unknown
The life of a healthy individual is characterized by fears, conflicting feelings, doubts, frustrations, as much as by the positive features. The main thing is that the man or woman feels he or she is living his or her own life, taking responsibility for action or inaction, and able to take credit for success and blame for failure. In one language it can be said that the individual has emerged from dependence to independence, or to autonomy.
~ Unknown
In the 1960s, Movement Conservatives created a cast of villains. The Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and President Eisenhower's use of troops to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957 enabled Movement Conservatives to resurrect old white fears that government activism was simply a way to funnel white tax dollars to African-Americans.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from.
~ Louise L. Hay
Nature, she knew, abhorred a vacuum, and these people, faced with an information vacuum, had filled it with their fears.
~ Louise Penny
Would he love this place less because he needed it less? Again he looked at Three Pines, the little village lost in the valley and felt the familiar lifting of his heart. But would it lift if there was no load? Was the final fear that, in losing his fears, he would also lose his joy?
~ Louise Penny
Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead
~ Jodi Picoult
Oh, the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fears of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great support from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.
~ John Bunyan
They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?
~ John Bunyan
Ever since you knew your power, You made me cry, And now everytime our love goes sour, You won't sympathize, You see these tears falling down to my ears, I swear you like when I'm in pain, I try to tell you all my fears, You still don't care.
~ Unknown
First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
~ Socrates
One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
~ John Donne
Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.
~ Robert G. Allen
You're either living your dreams, or living your fears.
~ Les Brown
Often times in order to capture your dreams, it will require you to chase your fears.
~ Neil Patel