Quotes About Fear

We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with secular populists and nationalists, and it ended up going pretty badly for everybody.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

Our adversaries no long fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

I was a diver. Looking back, I realize that putting yourself out there, literally, on the edge of the platform is very similar to doing live TV. It's taking the plunge and knowing, with lots of practice, it'll work out fine.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

I look at the England job. It's not always about being the greatest coach. You've got less than a week before most matches. So do the players need actual coaching, or do they need to be set up in a team structure that works, and then pointed in the right direction? Create spirit, take away the fear.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

I'm not a claustrophobe, but you don't need to be to feel claustrophobic inside an MRI. It's like being buried alive.

Luckily, I am not at all claustrophobic.

I'm very claustrophobic.

I don't get claustrophobic.