Quotes About Fear

I have no roots anywhere else. I have no 'at home' but here. And I feel doomed. Like I'm riding to Hell on a fast horse. I'm not afraid of dying, but I don't want to die alone. I don't want some no one finding me finished off and asking a sheriff, 'Who's that ?

Contempla que todo es posible. Si de pronto te da miedo nadar muy lejos océano adentro, da la vuelta y regresa al barco. Respira. Recuerda que la belleza existe y que la verdad no existe. Nota que la idea de verdad es tan poderosa como la de belleza

A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also be suspicious of others. The government designs these messages to make us feel dependent and heavily lorded over in every aspect of our lives. These messages are becoming ever more pervasive, hitting us even in grocery stores when we are shopping.

But propaganda, fear, and threats of being accused of being unpatriotic and treasonous are powerful means of controlling the young soldiers who are told their fighting is crucial for the country's survival. It's the young soldiers who must risk and even lose their lives. It's the typical politicians, who have been around for thousands of years, who have continued the carnage with their humanitarian lies and demands for wars.

Superstitions are just coincidence or ignorance.

She'd never known fear had a taste, but it did.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

We felt it was really a dangerous world where you got punished for doing nothing.

You know the adage "People resist change." It is not really true. People are not stupid. People love change when they know it is a good thing. No one gives back a winning lottery ticket. What people resist is not change per se, but loss. When change involves real or potential loss, people hold on to what they have and resist the change.

context, spoke of the threat of a "mobocratic spirit"18 seen in an outbreak of mob violence that

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Russiaphobia; what is that?" "Wearing one's rubies and emeralds at the same time," Mrs. Shamefoot said in a hushed voice.

Sade never understood how exceptional he was in not feeling frightened of freedom.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting Churchill)

The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

he spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the timidity of thought, the hesitancy and the drift." In these cases imagination and will are often blinded by "constructed evils," he wrote. "We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.

They understood that the innate emotions of humans were mutable. Anger didn't have to lead to violence, hate to cruelty, fear to oppression. There was a space for change between what words were said and what deeds were done.

As long as their fear of the dragon is stronger than their greed, this is a reasonable loss, said he. What's concerned us is that someone will become bold and organize a way to maim or kill her. The hoard is only metals and jewels. Nothing essential to life. Egnis's mystery is.

My wife tries not to bring out the beast in me -she's afraid of mice.