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“Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.”
Simon Hoggart (1946–2014) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ironing the lawn in Salisbury, Rhodesia" The Guardian (9 February 1980)
“Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces. (p287)”
Temple Grandin (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.”
George Canning (1770–1827) first seen 1783 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to George Leveson-Gower (2 October 1807), quoted in Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783–1846 (2006), p. 211
“Evoking fear is, in itself, an art form – and nothing in the entire history of storytelling has explored it better than video games.”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One cannot love God without fearing him, any more than one can love one's neighbor without respecting him; not to fear God is to prevent Him showing mercy.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To fear God is first of all to see, on the level of action, consequences in causes, sanction in sin, suffering in error; to love God is first to choose God, that is to say, to prefer what brings one nearer Him over what estranges from Him.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What most of us present to the world isn’t necessarily our true self: It’s a combination of years of bad habits and fear-based behavior. Our real self lies buried underneath all the insecurities and inhibitions. So rather than just being yourself, focus on discovering and permanently bringing to the surface your best self.”
Neil Strauss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.”
Emmitt Smith (born 1969) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard Alm, The Dallas Morning News (October 30, 2002) "Mover and Shaker - As a budding businessman, Emmitt Smith hopes to remain a ...", The Dallas Morning News, p. 6B.
“'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.'”
John Green (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 12 November 2011
“The body is a sacred garment: it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honour, and with joy and with fear as well. But always, though, with blessing.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If great managers are catalysts, speeding up the reaction between the individual's talents and the company's goals, then great leaders are alchemists. Somehow they are able to transform our fear of the unknown into confidence in the future.”
Marcus Buckingham (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
James Stephens (author) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Crock of Gold (Charleston: BiblioBazaar, [1912] 2006) p. 13.
“All souls last forever So we need never fear goodbye.”
Paul Williams (songwriter) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, for me, for me He careth With a brother's tender care; Yes, with me, with me He shareth Every burden, every fear.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seraphs and saints with one great voice Welcomed that soul that knew not fear. Amazed to find it could rejoice, Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer.”
John Davidson (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you know what fear stands for? Fuck Everything And Run.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, my brave Arabs! If I could only gather them in from all their desert ways, and arm them properly... But I fear it cannot be. They are drifting in by tens and scores, where I need hundreds and thousands.”
İsmail Enver (1881–1922) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The American Review of Reviews" - Page 184 - by Albert Shaw – 1915.
“Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.”
Marina Warner (born 1946) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wonder Tales (Oxford: OUP, 2004) p. 3.
“I am so far away from being the person I want to be. I am a terrible person and I am overwhelmed with guilt. I am paralyzed with shame and fear. If I work hard at improving myself each day, I may get a little tiny bit better, but I won't get much better—I'll never be great. It's too late for me. I've really blown it.”
John S. Hall (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And ere the dawn of day appear'd, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear.”
William Julius Mickle (1734–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who fear losing their jobs start lying”
Robert Lutz (born 1932) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Road & Track interview What I'd Do Differently: Bob Lutz, "", Road & Track Aug, 2016
“Memory is the fear, and I play most of my repertoire from memory.”
Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.”
Byron Katie (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.”
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective.”
Wole Soyinka (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times.”
Wole Soyinka (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Night my banner, and my herald Fear.”
Frances Bannerman (1855–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crime is so out of control. Criminals have no fear of punishment. Prisons are overcrowded so they know they will not be imprisoned long. This breeds more crime, in an escalating cyclic pattern.”
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us take short views. If we look over the precipices, we shall grow dizzy. If we look too far ahead, we shall grow discouraged. Let us rather put our weak hands into Christ's strong, loving grasp, and all the time listen to His cheering words, "Fear not; only trust.”
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humans kill one another – and in some cases themselves – for many reasons, but none is more human than the attempt to make sense of their lives. More than the loss of life, they fear loss of meaning.”
John Gray (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest fear in Jonathan's life is the love he feels for his sister.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you neither believe in religion nor fear the hereafter, then at least be free from tyranny and arrogance”
Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who worship God for the hope of gaining, they’re not real worshippers, they’re merchants. Those who worship God out of fear (of punishment), they’re slaves. And those who worship God to be grateful towards their creator, they are the free people, and their worship is a real one.”
Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The person who obeys the unique God, will not fear the anger of the creatures of God.”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) said by 868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a limit to caution and farsightedness; if one goes beyond the limit, fear and wretchedness will result.”
Hasan al-Askari (845–874) said by 874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you're wondering by now who I am, look no further than the mirror, Because I am the greed and fear - and every ounce of hate in you.”
Paul Weller (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to “penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,” as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.”
John Barth (1930–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a woman appears to express fear, we cannot assure her without at least releasing her from responsibility; when we interpret the same emotion in a man as anger, we want to blame him and be certain he acknowledges responsibility. We want to find her guiltless; we want to find him guilty.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Note the men’s fear that if they reported this to the authorities, not only would they not be believed, they would be ridiculed.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source