- Overcoming
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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
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is what makes comedy funny.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
While being a parent has been the most fulfilling experience of my life, it comes with a price. Besides the onslaught of worries and fears that can be paralyzing, more personally there is a struggle with identity, or the fear of loss or usurpsion of identity, if that makes sense.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020