Quotes About Fear

I had forgotten the number one truth I had discovered last year in Stockholm, and which should be axiomatic for anyone having to interview or get tangled up with royal persons: it is courtiers who make royalty frightened and frightening; taken neat like whiskey they are perfectly all right. This does not mean that they are as others, but you can get on to plain terms with the species, like an ornithologist making friends with some rare wild duck.

Yeesh. I didn't exactly love the idea of racing against Bigs Maloney. I'd rather go swimming with Orca the Killer Whale.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

Everything changed, and eleven months later, here I was in the middle of the night with a gungho major, playing secret agent, hoping some Frenchie didn't put a bullet in my skull before I gave the Germans and Italians their chance.

The sleep of reason brings forth monsters

PSALM 128:1-4 Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

The object of terrorism is to use violence or the threat of violence to create fear and alarm," says Jenkins. "And so terrorism has worked. Certainly, we have been the major contributors to that. We have scared the hell out of ourselves.

Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain

he took heed of a quote from Catch-22: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

The enclosed space trapped her anxiety, amplifying her fear.

no one in their right mind would ever rob graves in broad daylight.

Oswin, zo is het wel genoeg,' zei Balam. 'Straks schrikt hij nog van zijn eigen schaduw.' 'Misschien is het tijd dat we allemaal wat sneller schrikken.

Pumpkin-sized hail pelted all around. The roof of the Cat rang with their impacts, denting toward them.

It was said there were no atheists in a foxhole.

Only Kowalski voiced a dissent. "C'mon, guys. Does that really sound like a place we want to go?

Trust it little. Fear it much. Man at sea is but a worm on a bit of wood, now engulfed, now scared to death. —AMRU BIN AL-'AS, THE ARAB CONQUEROR OF EGYPT, 640 A.D.

The space between the next two buildings was crowded with four torn bodies, limbs shredded from torsos, intestines strewn like party streamers. Suddenly one of the torsos jerked into the darkened alley beyond, dragged by something hidden in shadow.

Pemakan daging manusia

trickle of superstitious dread

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Ye who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should arise, Cold and white, to freeze your eyes...

First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons.

Death was easy. A piece of pie. That is the true horror.

Halil could sense the cruel-eyed man humming with the power to end his life, straining at the leash like a snarling dog.