That, and I really hate paying taxes.

Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society.

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that,...

They fear Iraq is drifting from the Arabs, being divorced from the Arab world, and the increased influence of another neighboring country. This time, we are seeing some positive moves by the Arab League toward...

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

It was dark in the alley, and I was afraid I’d get mugged. Coffee also fears it’ll get mugged.

I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: “Uh, Fran? When I’m doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling.”Fran was adjusting someone across...

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

It’s very hard to spin this story positively. My fear is this could drag on for months and months and months.

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

It’s more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it...

Love opens all channels, while Fear closes them down. Love facilitates sharing, while Fear demands selfishness. Love allows us to be exposed, while Fear insists we be covered. Love provides unconditional acceptance, while fear stipulates...

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

There is an inherent, humbling cruelty to learning how to run white water. In most other so-called “adrenaline” sports—skiing, surfing and rock climbing come to mind—one attains mastery, or the illusion of it, only after...

Beneath every fear lies the pearl of hope.

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we...

There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there...

it feels so scary getting old.

A true gangster can smell out a person’s strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of...

There are two apparently opposing forces that govern our lives. No, not good and evil. Love and fear.That’s right: the opposite of love is not hate, but fear

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

You could become paralyzed with worry about what might happen to your family, or if you hadn’t yet had children you could decide not to, as a sort of proactive damage control. Either way, you...

Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, “I conquered my fear! YES!” and calmly walk away. I was inspired.

And besides, we lovers fear everything

As long as we know what it’s about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and...

Beethoven said that it’s better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and...

I don’t think we’re going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with what’s been going on with oil prices and the hurricane that there’s going to...

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

We’ve been through a lot together the past three or four years. We don’t fear anybody.

Instead of the final judgement, what worries me is the final dream.

That is what love does, it upstages fear.

The last remnants of Deanna the child–the idealist, the sheltered elite–had been torn loose by tonight’s tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new...

A heartbeat later a single pair of orange eyes rose from the darkened depths. Dim at first, then in full brightness of attention they moved up from the floor then glided toward here, drawing closer...

People run away from the love game because they know they won’t win the race.

It was as natural as breathing to all human beings, and to all warm-blooded creatures, for that matter, to wish quick deaths for monsters. This was an instinct.

Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.

That’s such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship....

Darkness is happening,” said the leather woman, very quietly. “Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for...

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation,...

I don’t think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It’s just cause and effect. We never can sort them out. Science refuses to admit any cause except first cause-knock down one domino, the...

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

…you think so logically…like a hawk soaring – I feel so chaotically…like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth…

Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.

Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means...

Maybe man is nothing in particular,’ Cross said gropingly. ‘Maybe that’s the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams...

Michael Vick healthy in the pocket, as a pocket passer, puts the fear of Doug Flutie in me. Michael Vick running around with all his legs (healthy) puts the fear of God.