Quotes About Fear

Beware of searching for the answer to your question, man could not endure life if he was aware of the hour of his death.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

You must learn what to fear and what not to fear.

Unlike white commentators, who were hamstrung by the fear that they would be labeled racist, I could voice my criticisms of the feudal, religious, and repressive mechanisms that were holding back women from Muslim communities.

People in the West... have learned not to examine the religions or cultures of minorities too critically for fear of being called racist.

the right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion.

People in the West... have learned not to examine the religions or cultures of minorities too critically for fear of being call racist.

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.

Pakistanis have internalized the threats, imagined and real, to the political stability and security of their country. An overwhelming fear of continued chaos and violence, if not outright disintegration, has made it difficult to arrive at balanced assessments of a disturbing present in order to plan for the future as a unified and coherent nation.

Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

The oldest and most enduring element of the religious phenomena is probably the existence of hidden, mysterious, and powerful forces and agencies in the world around us, which are feared, handled with care, and negotiated with.

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

Geceleri bile, daha ÅŸimdiden, uykumda matematik yap?yorum. Dün gece örneÄŸin, iki defa uyan?p ka??da kaleme sar?ld?m. Yaln?zl?k hayal alemini, matematik de soyutlama kabiliyetini aç?yor; korkunç ÅŸeyler hayal ediyorum. Hayret, insan nas?l da kendini verdiÄŸi bilimle özdeÅŸleÅŸiyor. -Ali Nesin

ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.

Then he began to feel frightened at the immensity of it all and his own littleness and at last he was glad to roll over and come to earth and watch the cosy flame-light playing about the faces of his brother outlaws.

Supposing I fell off ?' said Dodder rather nervously. 'Oh, you need not worry about that, little gnome, if you hold on tightly!

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.