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Quotes About Fears

Democrats in Congress whipped up fears of Soviet missiles and attacked the Eisenhower administration for allowing the United States to fall behind. The
~ Eric Schlosser
What is the witch's heritage? Her great, great, great, great, great ancestress is Ishtar-Diana-Demeter. Her father is man. Her midwife, his fears. Her torturer, his fears. Her executioner, his fears. Her malignant power, his fears. Her healing power, her own.
~ Erica Jong
People tend to hold a lot of superstitions when it comes to old graveyards
~ Amanda Stevens
Spirituality is the drive for the ultimate expansion of the heart and removing all the fears, doubts, and hatred from the mind.
~ Amit Ray
You recently read me a quote by Faulkner: "The past isn't dead, it's not even past." So much of our adult lives is influenced by what happened to us as children. It is all still there, the memories, the feelings, and fears, stored just beneath the surface in the hidden crannies of our cortex.
~ Anderson Cooper
In the field of politics, therefore, the European Left fears American power much more than does the Right. It is the other way round in the realm of culture; there, the Right is much more worried than is the Left.
~ Andrei S. Markovits
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.
~ Janet Mock
Rather than do his job and agree to take responsible measures to get our government's finances in order, President Obama continues playing on the emotions and fears of the American people.
~ Tom Graves
President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base.
~ Michiko Kakutani
I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I sort of use those stories and anecdotes to help them sort of overcome certain fears.
~ Derek Hough
Persistence is a drug that delivers strength, but it also dulls our sense of reality. My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.
~ Rinker Buck
We tend to remember our mistakes more than other actions because they leave us feeling uncomfortable. And because we don't like feeling that way, we are less likely to repeat our mistakes. The same can also be said for taking chances and putting aside our fears.
~ RJ Intindola
Weep not today: why should this sadness be? Learn in present fears To o'ermaster those tears That unhindered conquer thee.
~ Robert Bridges
your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself. As a warrior in life, you welcome combat and conflict as ways to prove yourself, to better your skills, to gain courage, confidence, and experience. Instead of repressing your doubts and fears, you must face them down, do battle with them.
~ Robert Greene
I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
~ Edward Victor Appleton
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
~ Ann Druyan
Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.
~ Paul Dirac
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?
~ Adam Langer
Leadership means inspiring us to manage through our fears. Demagoguery means exploiting our fears for political gain.
~ Al Gore
Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.
~ Alain de Botton