Quotes About Fear

They don't have to think. Just be afraid naturally and pulling together. Like specks of mercury rolling into the big piece. Like little specks of mercury rolling into bigger specks and then bigger and then just one piece, and nothing to be scared about or hurt about because you're just a piece of a bigger piece getting bigger rolling across the land into an ocean of mercury...

But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.

A sound of cornered animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance, that if you ever trailed a coon or cougar or lynx is like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything, but himself and his dying

Man will do away with anything that threatens him with loneliness—even himself.

Tudja, hogy az embernek nevetni kell a fájó dolgokat, mert másképp oda az ép ész, és az Å'rületbe hajtja az embert a világ.

When you face your fears, they no longer have power over you.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Your power ends where your fear begins.

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.