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Image of Stephen King
They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.
- Stephen King
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Image of Dean Koontz
Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.
- Dean Koontz
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Image of Anne Lamott
She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of James A. Baldwin
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
- James A. Baldwin
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Image of Stanley Kubrick
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
- Stanley Kubrick
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Image of Katherine Mansfield
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
- Katherine Mansfield
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Image of Antonio Machado
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
- Antonio Machado
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Image of Maxwell Maltz
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
- Maxwell Maltz
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Image of George MacDonald
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
- George MacDonald
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Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Image of Margaret Mahy
Fear can give you urgent wings.
- Margaret Mahy
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Image of George R. R. Martin
The man who fears losing has already lost.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of Marilyn Manson
...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.
- Marilyn Manson
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Image of George MacDonald
Fear is faithlessness.
- George MacDonald
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Image of Peter McWilliams
I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.
- Peter McWilliams
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Image of Karl Marx
I am nothing and should be everything.
- Karl Marx
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Image of George R. R. Martin
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of H. L. Mencken
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of H. P. Lovecraft
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
- H. P. Lovecraft
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Image of George R. R. Martin
His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of Og Mandino
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.
- Og Mandino
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Image of Peter McWilliams
The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.
- Peter McWilliams
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Image of Daphne du Maurier
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
- Daphne du Maurier
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Image of Brigitte Bardot
Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.
- Brigitte Bardot
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Image of Martin Luther
Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
- Martin Luther
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Image of H. P. Lovecraft
The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.
- H. P. Lovecraft
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Image of H. P. Lovecraft
I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
- H. P. Lovecraft
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Image of Max Lucado
You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.
- Max Lucado
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Image of H. L. Mencken
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Karl Marx
Misery motivates, not utopia.
- Karl Marx
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Image of Audre Lorde
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.
- Audre Lorde
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Image of Brad Meltzer
When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.
- Brad Meltzer
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Image of Brad Meltzer
And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.
- Brad Meltzer
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Image of Peter McWilliams
The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"
- Peter McWilliams
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Image of Peter McWilliams
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
- Peter McWilliams
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Image of Peter McWilliams
Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?
- Peter McWilliams
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Image of Peter McWilliams
..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.
- Peter McWilliams
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Image of Marilyn Manson
If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.
- Marilyn Manson
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Image of Herman Melville
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Cormac McCarthy
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
- Cormac McCarthy
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Image of James Russell Lowell
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of Allan Lokos
Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.
- Allan Lokos
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Image of John Adams
We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
- John Adams
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Image of Marilyn Manson
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.
- Marilyn Manson
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Image of H. L. Mencken
What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.
- H. L. Mencken
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