Quotes by Fear If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared. Seneca the Younger all-thingsfearthinking It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. Sherman Alexie rocksdrinkingfear Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. Sherman Alexie basketballfearmean The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. Shimon Peres things-in-lifeimportantfear What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law. Shirley Hazzard lawfearhappens A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. Shirley Manson fancy-carsfearpeople Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine spiritualfearfriendship Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is. Shirley MacLaine limbsfruitfear Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of. Shirley Jackson poorstrangerfear The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine fearfriendshiptravel I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel. Shmuel Yosef Agnon israelfearbook Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully. Shirley MacLaine queenskingsfear Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought. Simon Wiesenthal marijuanaweedfear Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . . Sigmund Freud religiousfearcivilization Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Smiley Blanton subtlediseasefear It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago. Smiley Blanton long-agocapacityfear They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy. Solomon Northup ignorantprayerfear Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. Socrates reverenceextensionsfear What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. Sonia Johnson fearheart To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? Socrates wisefeardeath«109110111112113114115116117118119»
