My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. Jonathan Safran Foer
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. Martha Beck
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Mary Baker Eddy
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. Marilyn French
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. Maggie Kuhn
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. Julien Green
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country. Dan Rather
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work. Lars von Trier
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. Jack Lemmon
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. David Mamet
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. Russell Baker
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. Diane Abbott
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. Diane Abbott
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. Dean Koontz
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. Susan Sontag
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. Twyla Tharp
I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better. Anthony Kiedis
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion. Kevin Mitnick
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. Salman Rushdie
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. Steven Brust