Fear Quotes

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Thomas Paine

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Douglas Horton

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

Errol Morris

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Tippi Hedren

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Dean Inge

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

Julie Burchill

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Madame Curie

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Haley Joel Osment

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Tacitus

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Aristotle

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Sun Tzu

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

Lauryn Hill

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Rickie Lee Jones

Fear controls you.

Jack Kevorkian