Quotes by Fear Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. William Shakespeare fearsuccessinspirational What are fears but voices airy? William Wordsworth whisperingvoicefear The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela painblowfear I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list! William Shakespeare starseyefear Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Winston Churchill greatest-victoryfearwar You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. Winston Churchill powerfulfearhome Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts. Winston Churchill fearheartpeace Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. Woodrow Wilson nwofearmen Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. William Shakespeare extremesfightingfear It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't. William Shakespeare eyefearlooks Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear. William Shakespeare soulfearmen The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. Winston Churchill modernfearsometimes Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. Wynonna Judd flipdarknessfear It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter Winston Churchill killingfearfeelings It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. Yann Martel opponentsdefeatfear For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. Yann Martel realfearmemories Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear. Yasser Seirawan fearchessblue You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it. Yasmin Mogahed sadnessfearheart What wouldst thou do, old man? William Shakespeare fearmenthinking There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times. Yevgeny Zamyatin differencesfearbook«127128129130131132133134135136137»
