Quotes About Fear

If the Great Change had proved anything, it was that—with enough force, with enough fear—one could bend them into whatever knots one pleased.

Oh yes, you understand better than most how this will work. Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.

You are very brave' said the first of the Magi, and his voice was almost painful on her ear 'Or very rash. To cavil with a man who has called up storms and snatched down lightning. Who scattered the mighty Thousand Words like chaff on the wind.' He leaned forwards, baring his teeth, and it was the most she could do to stop herself cringing, stumbling back, dropping to her knees. 'Why, you must know, that with a thought I could make ash of you.

A shifting sea of jabbing weapons, squealing shields, shining metal, bone shattered, blood splattered, furious, terrified faces washing all round him, squirming and wriggling, and he hacked and chopped and split them like a mad butcher going at a carcass.

Some things have to be done. It's better to do them than to live with the fear of them. That's what my father used to tell me.

fear them?" "One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.

The Northman chuckled. 'Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

There are those at both ends of the social scale who would have us change direction!" Curnsbick was shouting. "Those who would not only try to dam the river of progress but have it flow uphill! Who would break, burn and murder in the name of dragging us back into a glorious past that never truly was. A place of ignorance, superstition, squalor and fear. A place of darkness! But there will be no going

A türelem éppen olyan félelmetes fegyver, mint a harag. S?t, félelmetesebb, mert kevesebb ember rendelkezik vele.

Un banco con reputación de benevolencia es como una puta con reputación de castidad, siempre temes que no vayan a hacer el trabajo.

You can only conquer your fears by facing them. Hide from them, and they conquer you.

Vurms stopped in his tracks. "You wouldn't dare!" Glokta smiled. His most revolting, leering, gap-toothed smile. "You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you?

The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

He'd never been one for war cries. Why tell your enemy where you are? They'll learn soon enough. Surprise, that's the key. Whether you're fighting one man or a thousand or ten thousand. The more you're fighting, the more important it becomes, 'cause shock spreads faster'n plague, faster'n fire, and turns the bravest into cowards. So he rushed up silent as winter, silent as sickness.

But laws did not appear at all the rigid pillars they once had. If the Great Change had proved anything, it was that—with enough force, with enough fear—one could bend them into whatever knots one pleased.

Within reach of his hand, the Bloody-Nine was master. The

War's ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror.

Misjudgement is as much a part of life as unhappiness. It is nice to hold the power and make the choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become . . . at least they have one.' Glokta

Fear was born of arrogance. Of a belief that everything was not the will of God, and could be changed.

Being a parent means always being afraid. Afraid for your children. Afraid of your children.

Mason had just pulled his own knife out, a monster of a thing you could've called a sword without much fear of correction.

Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.

Strange thing, that–the fewer years you have to lose the more you fear the losing of 'em. Maybe a man just gets a stock of courage when he's born, and wears it down with each scrape he gets into.