Fear Quote by Andrew Smith Download Open image ““People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control.”” — Andrew Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Imspirational Learning
“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“People are afraid of anything they don't understand. When they understand, when they know the truth, they can do something about it.” — Ann Weil Copy Share Image
“You should only fear things that are beyond your control, but at the same time, you should never give up trying to understand them.” — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
“That’s what people do when they’re afraid of something. They don’t try to understand it, work with it, adapt to it. They destroy it.” — Rachel DeFriez Copy Share Image
“We fear what we don't understand, because when we come to understand what it is we fear, we are forced to except it and… — Keith Hampshire Copy Share Image
“I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it, the outside, but there was all kinds of other stuff going on, too? All the time. Underneath. But we just don't see it, even if we're part of it? Even if we're in it? And what… — Andrew Smith Copy Share
“Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract – like breathing, but you could never… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Everyone on every road that crossed beneath the point of my pen was always going to do the same things over and over and… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Do you think I'm queer, Rob?" I asked. "I don't care if you're queer," Robby said. " Queer is just a word. Like orange.… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months now, I’ve lived in terror, fearing everything and everyone. I don’t want to be scared anymore. The only time I’ve ever felt safe is in your arms. I love you, and I just want to let… — Devon Ashley Copy Share
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle. Anyway, both of these impulses can destroy order, which comes out of both drives, and which is another human need I haven't yet fit into my scheme. So both have to be controlled. But in fact,… — Marilyn French Copy Share
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark scared him. Tunnels scared him: the time he almost won the Silver Star for valor. But the real issue was courage. It had nothing to do with the Silver Star...Oh, he would've liked winning it, true,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share
