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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
Adele on fear

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
David Icke on fear

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee on fear

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon B. Johnson on fear

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong on fear

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
Homer on fear

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.
Kathie Lee Gifford on fear

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen on fear

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
Alanis Morissette on fear

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow on fear

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 on fear

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Andrew Jackson on fear

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus on fear

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis on fear

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
Robert Kiyosaki on fear

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann on fear

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger on fear

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone on fear

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
Lady Gaga on fear

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliams on fear