Quotes of: Fearing Keyword

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Francis Bacon

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Georges Simenon

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

Margot Robbie

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Pierre Corneille

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

Rachel Corrie

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

Richard Dawkins

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Stanislav Grof

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Garrett Hardin

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

Dan Stevens

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Francesco Guicciardini

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

Aldrich Ames

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

Andrew Lo

We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.

Alanis Morissette

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Andrew Pyper

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Aeschylus

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

Asne Seierstad

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Andrew Weil