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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Catherine Bateson on fear

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
Lauryn Hill on fear

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Grace Paley on fear

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
Danica McKellar on fear

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
Christina Ricci on fear

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens on fear

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
Jeanne Moreau on fear

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
Ron Fournier on fear

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
Ron Fournier on fear

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.
Phil McGraw on fear

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Louis Aragon on fear

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Tad Williams on fear

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'Neill on fear

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
Kristen Stewart on fear

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Clara Barton on fear

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
Abu Bakr on fear

God helps those who fear Him.
Abu Bakr on fear

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Pliny the Elder on fear

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
Freeman Dyson on fear

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
Lech Walesa on fear