Quotes About Fear

One thing I have figured out: People don't like different. People don't like to see anything different. When you see something different, you are either scared or afraid or you feel threatened. And I feel that the way I play the game, it feels like I should have played 50 years ago. But it's what I do.

I think people let their guards down when they think that they're not being intimidated or they're not being threatened.

It is not possible to know how to behave in threatening situations before you even end up in such a situation.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

I've had threats.

It was a dream move for me - I was at my hometown club - but I couldn't leave the house myself or with my family after receiving threats that suggested anything could happen at any moment. It turned my life into a nightmare. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I used to get a lot of death threats. After a while I realized that no one's gonna do anything or they would've.

It's never fun to read death threats.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

My own death threats have declined considerably.

I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these things. Sadly, most of the threats we encounter are at home.

As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.

I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.

Terrorism has come to publishing. It is a grave concern when criticism is turned to mortal threats.

As a lawyer, many a time I took up difficult and sensitive cases dealing with minorities' and women's rights. Yes, I constantly receive threats, and to be very honest, at times it is very scary. But I have to continue my work.

People have posted my personal information on the Internet. This has resulted in additional emails, calls, and threats. My family and I were forced to move out of our home.

Yes, I've received death threats.

There comes a point when threats become so overblown that they serve to irk rather than to frighten.

I am facing threats. But I believe that death is preordained - when you are meant to die, you will die.

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

I receive many death threats. I used to love walking around New York City alone, but I can't do that anymore.

Because the state I was in, contesting elections with Azam Khan, as a woman, with acid attack threats, threat to my life... I couldn't even tell my mother if I would come back alive whenever I left from home.