Fear Quotes

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Julian Baggini

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Julianna Baggott

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

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of ...

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.

Jasper Carrott

For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what...

Javier Camara

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Jerome Cady

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

Jerome Cady

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

Joan Chen

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

John Calvin

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

John Cameron

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

John Cheever

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Joseph Conrad

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

Julia Child

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Julius Caesar

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

Jack Dee

Fear is always a good motivator.

James Dyson

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

John Doolittle

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden