However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear

There is a wave of gratefulness because people are becoming aware how important this is and how this can change our world. It can change our world in immensely important ways, because if you’re grateful,...

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

Don’t let me lose myself.

What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the heavy yoke of the world, and to bear the light burden of Jesus...

Crude prices reflect a $20 fear premium.

Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

Fear is the highest fence.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing’s changed. We still hate what we don’t understand.

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely...

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?””Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and...

Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.

The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they...

Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that...

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

But no one could say he hadn’t gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children...

A thousand times today I’ve started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, “Can you tell me…? But then I’d look into the front seat, at my mother’s silent shaking, my father’s grim profile,...

It’s all right to be afraid. You just don’t let it stop you from doing your job.

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical...

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

…as you know, I don’t believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs…

I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you’re alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good...

We can’t be brave without fear.

Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar...

Eventually he’d let the answering machine take over and had hidden in his studio. Where he’s hidden all his life. From the monster. He could feel itin their bedroom now. He could feel its tail...

They want to sow fear.

You’d have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn’t seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she...

S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

If you’ve never been afraid, you haven’t had your moment of bravery just yet

If anyone doesn’t agree with you, the truth is on your side.

Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Without her, part of my soul was missing. My heart had left with her, when she moved with Henry here, putting half the planet between us, making me wait for the rare phone calls.

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back

Being brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared.

If every day you are not paying the price to make your dreams come true, then your everyday is a price that you are paying to stop your dreams coming true.

If you Fear, your Heart will decay

UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can’t get out of bed.It’s something about the crumpled sheetshanging over the edge like junglefoliage, the terry...

That which you fear the most, you attract easiest.

She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows...

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

I sense that some may be seeking to use fear of the Y2K millennium bug to revive failed liability limitation legislation of the past.

The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.

Laughing in the face of danger doesn’t negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.