I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage. Jeff Bridges
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. Rowan Williams
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. Jack Nicholson
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. Henry A. Wallace
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Umberto Eco
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Emile M. Cioran
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it! Bryant H. McGill
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own. Titus Livius
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. Ivo Andric
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? Rand Paul
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. Lord Chesterfield
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear. Billy Corgan
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. Douglas Horton
I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life. Steven Seagal
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. John Dryden
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. Camille Paglia
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. Bell Hooks
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. William Tecumseh Sherman
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. Hugh Jackman