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Fear

I cant understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God thats not religion, thats not helping humanity, thats organizing an army to defeat somebody. – Mojo Nixon

Cruelty is a tyrant thats always attended with fear. – Thomas Fuller

People react to fear, not love they dont teach that in Sunday School, but its true. – Richard M. Nixon

I dont run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. – Nadia Comaneci

The scariest thought in the world is that someday Ill wake up and realize Ive been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. – George Saunders

The secret of life is to have no fear its the only way to function. – Stokely Carmichael

While theres life, theres fear. – Mason Cooley

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured Id deal with the other stuff later. – Portia de Rossi

Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. Im fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldnt make a good suspense film. – Alfred Hitchcock

I am so tired of fear. And I dont want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear. – Michelle Obama

I get so nervous on stage I cant help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes its pure fear. I find it difficult to believe Im going to be able to deliver. – Adele

The reason most people dont express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, Its what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them. – David Icke

The Russians feared Ike. They didnt fear me. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? – Anna Quindlen

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldnt have it, to fear and suspect the worst. – Desiderius Erasmus

To overcome a fear, heres all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. – Peter McWilliams

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because its very easy in this game to believe youre something special. – Keith Richards

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what were lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and its worse than fear – its active disengagement. – Ken Burns

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. Thats why I tend not to wear heels. – Taylor Swift