Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Edmund Waller

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile Zola

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

Fred Saberhagen

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hermann Hesse

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean de la Bruyere

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Joel Barlow

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Judy Blume

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Karl Shapiro

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Linus Torvalds

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Richard Dawkins

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Rush Limbaugh

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

A. S. Byatt

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Samuel Daniel

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Vita Sackville-West

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

William Shatner

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

George Gurdjieff

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Hesiod

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Julia Ward Howe