Quotes About Fear

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.

Do not let fear become disabling. That is what the terrorists want. They want you to imagine them in the shadows; they want you to imagine them as something greater than they are.

I'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear.

Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.

The reality is that we can no longer sleep soundly at night thinking that if we keep the terrorists 'out there,' we are safe inside our homes and offices. That illusion is gone.

Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists.

Politicians have been spreading fear, saying if we're letting in refugees, we're letting in terrorists. It's not the truth. We've got to recognise the difference between terrorism and people who are refugees; people who are struggling.

We must have the right to name our fears and laugh at those who seek to scare us - or risk giving in to terrorists.

You can't test courage cautiously.

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

Every time I go back to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to wait for my test results, and I wonder if I've relapsed or if I'm doing okay, I don't think about my company. I'm proud of everything we've done, but at the end of the day, it comes back to family. I'm still a wife, a mom, a sister - all of those things.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

I remember just calling myself gay was a big step for me, and I remember being in the bathroom brushing my teeth, testing out to myself in the mirror, saying, 'I am gay,' and seeing if the world was going to stop or if the ceiling would fall in on me.