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I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
– Jerry B. Jenkins
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I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
– David Brainerd
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
– Saadi
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I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
– Anthony Horowitz
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I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
– Isoroku Yamamoto
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I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.
– Tom Brady
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
– Hans Blix
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I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
– Nadia Comaneci
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I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
– Jeff Bridges
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
– Jack Nicholson
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I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
– Margot Kidder
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I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.
– Puff Daddy
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
– Lauryn Hill
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I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
– Billy Corgan
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I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
– Lionel Blue
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I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.
– Ashley Tisdale
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I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
– Max Baer
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I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
– Chris Evans
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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
– Louise Brown
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I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
– Clara Schumann
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I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
– Mojo Nixon
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I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.
– Shimon Peres
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I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
– Joe Biden
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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
– Mos Def
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
– Victoria Pratt
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
– Manuel Puig
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I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
– Michelle Obama
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I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
– Mariska Hargitay
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
– Harlan Coben
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I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.
– Joaquin Phoenix
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Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
– Robert Falcon Scott
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
– Yousef Munayyer
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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
– Joseph Conrad
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How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.
– Ehud Olmert
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
– Martha Beck
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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.
– Tippi Hedren
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Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!
– Brooke Burke
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Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.
– Janeane Garofalo
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He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
– Publilius Syrus
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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
– Bobby Bowden
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Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
– Marilyn Monroe
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
– Cyril Connolly
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Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
– Lionel Richie
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
– Florence Welch
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God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
– Ruby Dee
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God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
– Charles Stanley
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God helps those who fear Him.
– Abu Bakr
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
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For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
– John Frusciante
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
– Alexander Pope
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For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
– Hugh Grant
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
– Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
– Laura Linney
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
– Elizabeth I
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
– J. K. Rowling
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
– John Henry Newman
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Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
– Andrew Jackson
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
– Anwar Sadat
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
– Oliver Stone
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
– Patrick Henry
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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
– Tertullian
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
– Bertrand Russell
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Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
– Andrea Riseborough
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
– Marilyn Monroe
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
– Mary Catherine Bateson
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
– Virgil
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Fear is exciting for me.
– Ayrton Senna
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Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.
– Jeremy Renner
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Fear is always a good motivator.
– James Dyson
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Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
– Mike Huckabee
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Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
– Marilyn French
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Fear is a huge thing for older people.
– James Hillman
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Fear controls you.
– Jack Kevorkian
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
– Caecilius Statius
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
– William Congreve
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
– Baruch Spinoza
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Fear attracts attack.
– Edwin Louis Cole
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
– Vanessa Paradis
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Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.
– Leona Lewis
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Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
– Andrew Weil
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
– David Duchovny
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
– Aleister Crowley
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
– Aeschylus
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
– Mel Brooks
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
– Amelia Barr
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Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
– Anna Quindlen
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Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.
– Phil McGraw
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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
– Andrew Motion
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Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
– Rosie O'Donnell
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Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
– Camille Claudel
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Do what you fear and fear disappears.
– David Joseph Schwartz
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
– Rand Paul
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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
– Lech Walesa
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Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
– John Doolittle
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
– Mason Cooley
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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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