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Fear

Let them hate so long as they fear. – Lucius Accius

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you. – Liza Minnelli

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause. – Donald Cargill

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions. – Michael Sheen

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. – Gouverneur Morris

Fear controls you. – Jack Kevorkian

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? – Stevie Nicks

Fear is always a good motivator. – James Dyson

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. – J. G. Ballard

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic. – Tippi Hedren

You have to have fear to take risks – and I want to at least try. – Seann William Scott

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people. – Florence Welch

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. – Craig Ferguson

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us. – Leona Lewis

Respect and fear are two different things. – Jane Smiley

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

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

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

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

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