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Fear Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
- Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he…
- I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
- I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness…
- For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.
- Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
- She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since…
- How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You…
- And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive…
- A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to.…
- ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....…
- Courage and fear were one thing too.
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure…
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this…
More Fear Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad