For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s going to satisfy the judge.

This is a market that goes down on sentiment and goes up on excessive fear, … There was excessive fear and a deflationary picture. Markets will rally on excessive fear and it seems to be...

Nothing natural could cause this kind of fear. It goes beyond a fear of physical harm and into the realm of mental and spiritual. Like the fear of losing your sanity, of losing your soul.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

What separates courage from fear are the thoughts we choose to believe.

Either way, one should love their children, shouldn’t they? After all, children are only duplicates of your own genes. What did these children ever ask for? They wanted love, family, and support. But WE kicked...

In a while, her eyes felt leaden and she felt sleep overpower her, even as she fought to keep her eyes open. In vain, I tried to churn within her, a little nugget of fear,...

I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are...

Focus on beauty, not on feardance with stress to let it clear

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn’t look to see who’s there.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won’t spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a...

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will...

That’s because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear – the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories...

fear doesn’t listen to reason it takes it own counsel

Nicht die Dinge an sich sind es, die uns beunruhigen, sondern unsere Vorstellung von den Dingen.

The fear that’s out there is forward looking, with people worrying about inflation and what the Federal Reserve might do in the months ahead. So the numbers next week won’t help, although we do get...

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

If she’s in pain now she doesn’t show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

Najgorszy jest lęk przed czymś, czego nie można nazwać.

He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn’t want it to happen to me. I said, ‘No. Get off, please.’ He pulled me...

He’s a rare player to come in the way he has and shoot the three ball without fear, and no one has to tell him to shoot the ball. He definitely has the confidence to...

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

what shows that I am blessed?”. These statements clearly tell that you are not aware of who you are in the first place.

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre.” [Running Scared, p. 111]

Being Tranquil didn’t sound so bad to him. He’d been terrified of being swallowed up by the darkness for so long it seemed like it would be a relief to get it over with. You...

When you or your closed ones face danger, you’d tend to get closer to God and be good.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

There are a few things that even sarcasm can’t protect you from.

Our hearts bear a similarity with storerooms. We hold in them our trampled convictions, our fears, suppressed acts of valor, disappointments, enmity, anguish, secrets, things we wish we should have done, things we wish we...

There’s an element of fear and an element of a long-term revaluation of the market going on here.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile

I am scared of the photo studio. I am scared of the telephone. Scared of anything outside our apartment. Scared of the people in their big fur hats. Scared of the snow. Scared of the...

There’s a lot of fear, people are afraid,

The fear of losing something makes you weak, lose it and gain your strength

The fear there is the unknown.

My fear is that if some kid gets in this guy’s car she is never going to come back alive.

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that...

Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people...

2 + 2 = 5: the sum of all fears

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can’t eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He’d just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish...

the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I’m not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t.

It’s a public safety issue. If you close down the track, what’s gonna happen out there? Everybody has the fear of illegal street racing.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.