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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
Sara Blakely on fear

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Zbigniew Brzezinski on fear

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
Patrick Swayze on fear

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson on fear

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
Steve Irwin on fear

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
Douglas Wood on fear

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
John Hawkes on fear

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'
Shawn Johnson on fear

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
Virginia C. Andrews on fear

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
Harlan Coben on fear

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben on fear

I like to do something I fear.
Heath Ledger on fear

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Gordon Parks on fear

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
Jonathan Sacks on fear

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
Jonathan Sacks on fear

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Giordano Bruno on fear

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
Ruby Dee on fear

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
Floyd Patterson on fear

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
Lewis Thomas on fear

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
Warren Farrell on fear