Fear

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened… well, Im just thankful to be alive. Im just grateful to be here at all. – Travis Barker

If you dont go towards the thing you fear, you wont be able to say you lived. – Sherri Shepherd

Id make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list. – Kristen Wiig

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what Ive written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. – Joyce Maynard

I say lets go back to a truer use of the word freedom. Lets start with President Franklin Roosevelts Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. – Richard Trumka

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that wed have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. Thats dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. – George Osborne

When men dont fear God, they give themselves to evil. – Ray Comfort

I dont think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc. – Hans Blix

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people dont behave very well when they are afraid. – Daniel H. Wilson

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. Its because Im freelance, and Ive never had a proper job. I dont have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me. – Jenny Eclair

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we wont have as much censorship because we wont have as much fear. – Judy Blume

Theres so much fear involved in trying to do something you dont know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are. – Barry Mann

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I cant control. – Lynda Barry

Weve all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because its not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have. – Emmanuelle Beart

I wont touch on risky, because thats subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that dont necessarily merit fear. – Frank Ocean

I dont want to wake up and be bored. Thats probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that Ive been on for a long time and had success with? I dont plan on giving it up any time soon. – Tom Brady

Im not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively. – David Guetta

Sides are being divided now. Its very obvious. So if youre on the other side of the fence, youre suddenly anti-American. Its breeding fear of being on the wrong side. – Sam Shepard

You dont want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You dont want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk. – Ron Chernow

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, thats spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. – Ron Chernow