Quotes About Fear

The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Be a little kinder than you have to. Never eat anything bigger than your ass Do not accept an evil you can change Always do what your afraid to do

I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.

Oh, just you wait. I'll have, like Great Danes and pygmy goats and maybe even a baby panda living with me. That is what panic does to people if the attacks get bad enough.

It's just a house. Lots of houses seem scary at night, but in the morning, they are friendly again.

Cady, I'm serious. We should NOT always do what we're afraid to do,' says Mirren heatedly. 'We never should.' 'Why not?' 'You could die. You could get hurt. If you are terrified, there's probably a good reason. You should trust your impulses.' 'So what's your philosophy, then?' Johnny asks her. 'Be a giant chickenhead?' 'Yes,' says Mirren. 'That and the kindness thing I said before.

I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die.

Always do what you're afraid to do

The four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

We burned them all. On a night when Granddad and the rest had taken boats across the bay, When the staff was off duty And we liars we're alone on the island, The four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

when the staff was off duty and we Liars were alone on the island, the four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

Part of me doesn't want to ruin it. Doesn't want to even imagine that it isn't perfect.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. (p. 106)

Always do what you're afraid to do -Cadence (Cady)

Fait ce qui te fait peur

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Bad dreams? -Just dreams.

I'm not ashamed. I don't apologize. But it has frightened you, and you may not have noticed that I love you.