Quotes About Fear

No one in the house had seen books for generations. We didn't even know what they were. We'd only heard that they were poisonous and that they ruined the mind, and that no one was to have anything to do with them.".

Don't fear. You will always have something to struggle for, even if it is beauty or joy.

People who use only their eyes do not SEE. People who use only their ears do not HEAR. It is more difficult to love than to die. It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love. The heart is bigger than a mountain. One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mightly plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls.

We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see. Our

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it's moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

If you've got a squirt gun in your pocket, you may have to take it out. If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out," he said. Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes. I was reminded of the military doctrine of "overwhelming force" as the way to prompt quick surrender and minimize casualties.

If banks won't borrow because they fear that doing so might send a bad signal about their financial health, then having a lender of last resort does little good.

Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes.

He and his company were caught up in a panic not

As the panic worsened,

which she feared would do more harm than good.

I feared at the time that avoiding the firm's failure might only delay the inevitable. Today

They would fear having their ownership stake diluted,

There are, of course, three ways to hide behind a sofa.

because man is a threat to man, human beings seek safety and satisfaction in authority;

If fears of anti-religious universities were well-founded then, those fears are a thousand-fold more legitimate now.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.

It's not that everybody hates you. It's that millions of Americans are afraid to say that they agree with you.

More than six in ten Americans say they fear saying what they think, including a majority of liberals, 64 percent of moderates, and fully 77 percent of conservatives.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

Plain blunt people may be a little afraid of formal music. But I have lived to regret that failure. Every man [or woman], barbarian or civilised, should play at least one musical instrument. And have a trade: cobbling or carpentry or whatever.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.