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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
Bill Owens on fear

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
Mos Def on fear

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
Tony Kushner on fear

Respect and fear are two different things.
Jane Smiley on fear

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
Jane Smiley on fear

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Roald Dahl on fear

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
Thomas Friedman on fear

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
Steve Perry on fear

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Charles de Montesquieu on fear

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Eli Whitney on fear

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming on fear

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
J. J. Abrams on fear

We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Robert Toombs on fear

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Emmanuel Teney on fear

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman on fear

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby Bowden on fear

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.
Dominic Monaghan on fear

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Dave Matthews on fear

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy on fear

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Federico Garcia Lorca on fear