- Fearing
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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.
- Preparation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We face paired dangers. The first is that our networks are successfully attacked. The second is that our fear of attack will cause us to destroy what makes the Internet special.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own is sink holes and the inevitability of us all, at some point, collapsing into a sink hole and never being seen again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020