- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear Quotes
Fear fades fastest when it's named directly.
This collection pairs personal courage with public conviction - resolve around national security, wariness of concentrated institutional power, and the belief that a government secure in itself should welcome, not dread, criticism. Related reading in Fearless Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
- Infinite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020