Quotes About Fear

Tu sais, quand j'étais jeune, les gens avaient peur de la guerre atomique. C'était une peur formidable. Mourir à cent ans dans le brasier d'un gigantesque champignon nucléaire, mourir avec la planète... Ça avait tout de même de la gueule. Au lieu de quoi, je vais mourir comme une vieille pomme de terre pourrie. Et tout le monde s'en foutra.

Parim viis hirmu peletamiseks on hirmu tekitamine.

Grupisisene hirm peletab hirmu välismaailma ees.

Üleminekud on alati ebakindlad ja ohtlikud.

Cela vous inquiète ? - Non. Les changements ne sont pas inquiétants. L'immobilité et le mensonge sont bien pires.

N"ayez pas peur du kamikaze. Ce qui l'intéresse dans le risque de mort, ce n'est pas le risque, c'est la mort. Ce qu'il aime dans la guerre, ce n'est pas "vaincre ou mourir" mais mourir et ne surtout pas vaincre. Sa grande affaire, ce n'est pas, comme dit Clausewitz, proportionner des efforts à la force de résistance de l'ennemi, le renverser, le réduire - mais mourir. (ch. 16 Debray, Kojève et le prix du sang)

I was expressing the fear that America could become just another country, bigger than most, more powerful, grappling with myths that were a little more outsized than the others, but all in all a country like another, with a president who, seventy-five years ago and in the grip of the original America First, might not have waged war against Nazism.

Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand

Lord, how come she asking me this now? A colony of ants starts crawling all over my scalp, but I'm too afraid to attack them in case she interprets my discomfort. This is too much. Anything is a big word that can accommodate all things, and every thing, and some thing that, yes, she needs to know eventually, but it ain't easy giving voice to the love that brings shame .

According to related studies, "fear-based" staff management techniques engender a hostile atmosphere, which in turn arouses fierce competition and seriously impairs moral values.

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

Down the other way to the right lay the vast mystery of West China and the Himalayas, unknown, uncharted, brooding, sleeping, buried behind fear and time and the ranges of always-white mountains.

Every time they have time to queue up and come slow-rolling through, plenty of people get killed. The most hopeless feeling in the world is when you just have to sit there and wait for it, knowing you're either going to be dead in a couple of seconds, or you're still going to be one of the lucky ones, one of the breathing ones who came through it.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Truth was, I was afraid to be. I was afraid that my joy would bring back more bad.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to common sense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

If you stuffed a ship full to bursting point with human bodies, there would be such loneliness that they would all freeze.

Quello che amo mi ha detto che ha bisogno di me Per questo ho cura di me stessa guardo dove cammino e temo che ogni goccia di pioggia mi possa uccidere

Quella che amo mi ha detto che ha bisogno di me. Per questo guardo dove cammino e temo che ogni goccia di pioggia mi possa uccidere.

Es curioso. Cuando se oye hablar a los señorones, sólo hacen la guerra por el temor de Dios y por todo lo que es bueno y hermoso. Pero si bien se mira no son tan tontos y hacen la guerra por la ganancia.