Quotes About Fear

I'm not qualified," I protested. "Me, a minister? I have no idea how to be a pastor." He said, "When God calls someone, that's all that really matters. Don't let yourself be afraid.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity.

If you hate change, then you're really going to hate extinction.

The achievement of this goal will require a major war, a world war, starting most likely from the impending US-Israel attack on Iran. But to wage this war the US must be transformed into a genuine dictatorship. Legislation carried out in the wake of [the] Oklahoma bombing and 9/11 has ensured that the US public lives in constant fear of being arrested.

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Killer on the road / His brain is squirming like a toad.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

No one knew that a killer was already moving through their streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way.

Man is extremely uncomfortable with uncertainty. To deal with his discomfort, man tends to create a false sense of security by substituting certainty for uncertainty. It becomes the herd instinct.

in the words of the father of contrary thinking, Humphrey Neil, "The crowd is most enthusiastic and optimistic when it should be cautious and prudent, and it is most fearful when it should be bold."7 On

We hope the future will turn out well, but we fear it won't. As members of the crowd we will always take these emotions to extremes. When the herd instinct combines with hope and fear in a market environment, we get panics and manias.

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

Usually, during the past fifteen-odd years, I'd hated to see the morning come. That's a psychotic symptom, you know, not wanting to awaken--hating to face things that are bound to be more than you can handle.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?