Quotes with fear-inspiring

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  • Audre Lorde My fear of anger taught me nothing.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 124
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Huey Newton My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Jefferson My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ben Stein My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Milan Kundera Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Francis Quarles Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Bertrand Russell Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
    An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Babe Ruth Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Billy Tauzin New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brad Henry No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bob Riley No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Alan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • William Wordsworth Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Umberto Eco Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Albert Camus Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Louise Erdrich Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
    The Round House (2013) 138
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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