Quotes About Fear

We are witnessing the total collapse of a bad idea. Obamaism, a quasi-socialist commitment to a more powerful government at home and an abdication of American leadership around the world, is being exposed as a historic calamity. It is fueling domestic fear and global disorder and may well lead to a world war.

Life is my nightmare now, and paradoxically, my dreams have become escapes.

It's not the monsters who are so completely different that are scary, Sanjit reflected. It's the ones who are too human. They carry with them the warning that what happened to them might happen to you, too.

the top reason doctors give for not counseling patients with high cholesterol to eat healthier is that they think patients may "fear privations related to dietary advice."65 In other words, doctors perceive that patients would feel deprived of all the junk they're eating. Can you imagine a doctor saying, "Yeah, I'd like to tell my patients to stop smoking, but I know how much they love it"?

Svrha je takozvani život poslije smrti?" "U koji ti ne vjeruješ", rekla je Emmylou. "Naravno da ne!" "Pa ?ega se onda bojiš? Nestanka? Nestaješ svake no?i svojeg života. Pa što onda zna?i ako zavlada trajni mrak? Ti ionako ništa ne?eš znati, po definiciji.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

Power cannot survive when its subjects free themselves from fear.

Fear dominates. Thus come charismatic leaders to protect these classes and populist organizations to convince them they belong to an identity, which is merely a social grouping that is no longer coherent.

The word"boundaries" often relates directly to the word fear. In other words, we often limit ourselves from going beyond the"norm" because we think of it as being"risky" or because we're afraid of failure. It's easy to settle for average or normal. That's why the majority of us do!

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

I met this kid from Miles City, Montana, who read the Stars and Stripes every day, checking the casualty lists to see if by some chance anybody form his home town had been killed. He didn't even know if there was anyone else from Miles City in Vietnam, but he checked anyway because he knew for sure that if there was someone else and they got killed, he would be all right. "I mean, can you just see *two* guys from a raggedy-ass town like Miles City getting killed in Vietnam?

This is what my lifelong search for room to maneuver had come to: a box of water in a lightless, windowless nine-by-sixteen-foot room—afraid to leave my artificial womb, to go outside where I could only cause trouble, disappoint my family and myself. Best, I thought, to stay right here where I couldn't fuck anything up. And stay I would, day after day, sometimes three or four times on weekends, for hours at a time, just trying to keep my head below water. Connecticut—Christmas

Historians who carefully examined the events and details behind the disasters of the Titanic, the Challenger, and the Bay of Pigs have determined a common thread: the inability or unwillingness of participants and leaders to raise questions about their concerns. Some group members were fearful that they were the only one who had a particular concern (when, in fact, it was later discovered that many people in the group had similar concerns).

We perceive the world in the light of our hopes and fears.

Together we can make a change in the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice…we can help the world live without fear. It is our only hope, and without hope.. we are lost

One day I will risk losing you forever. When I'll tell you for the first time that I love you.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

That's because they fear an armed citizenry would rebel to the point of a civil war at some crucial point in their efforts to nullify the US Constitution and have America become part of the New World Order.

Trouble might come for you when you showed fear, but trouble doubled down when you lied about being afraid.

Once people no longer fear starvation, they choose to eat for a whole variety of reasons, and these were not so different at the court of the Medici than they are at the food courts of Beverly Hills. Food is much more than a fuel; it is packed with meaning and symbolism. That

If Christians were afraid of worldliness as much as they are of holiness, they would set the world on fire for Christ. ANONYMOUS

I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power (1 Corinthians 2:1-5).