Fear Quotes - Page 71

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Living based in security is living based in fear.

Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.