Quotes with fears

  • When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
  • No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
  • Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
  • People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
  • Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
  • Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
  • But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
  • I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
  • Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
  • Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
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  • Horace A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • William Wrigley Jr A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
    William Wrigley Jr
    American entrepreneur and chewing gum manufacturer (1861 - 1932)
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  • Seneca A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Martin H. Fisher A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
    Martin H. Fisher
     
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  • John Donne As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Akhenaton As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Arianna Huffington But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Jerry Gillies Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Arthur Koestler Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Richard Baxter Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
    Richard Baxter
     
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  • Thomas Szasz Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • A. R. Ammons Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Pietro Metastasio Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
    Pietro Metastasio
    Italian poet and librettist (1698 - 1782)
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  • Carl Sagan Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 17 min 40 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Arianna Huffington Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Fears are nothing more than states of mind.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ben Marcus Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Gerald C. Meyers Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.
    Gerald C. Meyers
     
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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