Quotes About Fear

I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you.

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

We have been, obviously both in Maine and nationally, enmeshed in this false narrative that's based on a fear of immigrants, when in fact we are country founded by immigrants.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

The bald look intimidates people. Short and nasty.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Let's talk about national security. That's what's keeping most Americans up at night.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

I'm going to feel intimidated whatever: that's just my natural state. So I may as well embrace intimidation.

We are all naturally xenophobic.

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

Fear of competition, fear of bankruptcy, fear of being wrong and fear of losing can all be powerful motivators.

He knew he was vulnerable now, cornered with one way out.

She worried that her best was behind her now.

The more she knew, the worse she'd worry.

Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go.

Do you believe in chaos- in random, uncontrolled events, in the idea that anything can happen at any time without fixed laws governing it? If you believe that, you will always be in a state of fear, not knowing what will happen from one moment to the next. The fear might be small, but it is there. That fear results in a lack of security and a feeling of mistrust.

You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.

I am not scared of you. I am scared only of Headmistress. She trained me since birth. She sent me here from Dark Room to kill your vice president to delay Key Treaty. I cannot fail her.

Yes. I had misgivings from the beginning about this entire enterprise. I still believe that sending a Jedi to assassinate a man was wrong. And I fear that I will likely lose not only a fellow Jedi Master, but someone I consider a friend, and we will have nothing to show for such a loss.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later