Quotes About Fear

That's fear talking," said Serge. "Fear's a bullshit artist.

Things sure have changed. FDR tried to calm us: "Nothing to fear but fear itself." Now politicians encourage the jitters. Panic is the new patriotism. "Today's Threat Level: Duck!

worry is usually interest paid on a debt that never comes due.

Fear, like self-pity, is a prison of its own making.

It's often said that there are two fundamental sentiments that decide an election—hope for the future, and fear of it. If hope prevails, we're likely to elect more generous governments and reach out to the world, but if fear prevails, we elect inward-looking, nationalistic ones.

The tone of his father's voice made Josh afraid to ask what it was he wanted to talk about, so Josh only

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

Yeah, I kind of looked around and I can't understand why nobody else is speaking up. Later when I faced the backlash of speaking up, I realized why nobody did.

I get anxiety from a noise or some scuffling at the side of the stage. I hear stories all the time, from as minor as Dillon Francis getting smacked in the head with a flying beer can to Dimebag Darrell.

I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

It's a weird little anomaly about horror films in that the more money and noise you have, the less scary it gets.

I think I got nominated in the MTV Brand New Top 10 because I'm 3x world time karate champion, and I'd probably just beat everyone up if they didn't put me in it. They were all scared!

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

At any time, somebody can blow themselves up and take Americans with them. They can blow up an airplane; they can crash an airplane. That's something we have to worry about every day - we spend 40 billion dollars yearly on homeland security. That has nothing to do with Crusades or any of that other nonsense.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

As an actor, I have a lot of fear, thinking that if I speak my mind, or something that feels like it deviates from the norm as a woman, am I going to be made to disappear in my industry?

It is normal to be nervous.

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever see men as normal people and I could never trust them. I couldn't bear any human connection with men.

I normally have a healthy fear of journalists.