Quotes About Fear

Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station. When you're confronted by the police, very few - either the foolish or the very brave - will refuse consent when confronted by the police.

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

I remember, I used to get off a bus, and if there was someone sitting in the station, I remember thinking maybe they were from Shin Bet and came for me.

In India, going to a police station is not the most pleasant experience.

If you've ever experienced being in an Indian train station as the train pulls in, even as a six-foot adult, it's incredibly scary. You just have people storming at you, bumping around you, without any regard to your safety.

Ben Carson has what Iowa caucus-goers favor - the soft touch and outsider status, and no fear of going after Obamacare and the excesses of Washington.

Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.

When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening.

People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.

My fear is that, had I stayed in Jersey, I would have become Snooki because I'm just a bottle of hair dye away.

I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.

I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.

I stayed at home and loved my own company because I was just petrified of everybody else my own age, which I think a lot of people are.

I stayed because it was normal. After the first hit, you don't think they're going to do it again. And it does escalate, but I stayed because it became normal. I didn't call the police because I didn't want them to go to jail and it just was normal.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

I'm not very good at staying up late and drinking or any of that stuff. It sort of freaks me out.

Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone's house or not being able to tell the time, all of those things I can remember very clearly. We so often forget how big all these things are for very small children because they are so often trying these things for the first time.

We've been conditioned to be incredibly avoidant. 'I'm afraid I'll be called a racist if I say something wrong,' is the familiar retort. Well, okay, that's scary and difficult, but staying silent, avoiding the issue, doesn't mean that racism goes away.

Going under the water and staying under the water for periods of time gives me claustrophobia.

I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I'd like to be. More and more, I've taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen.