Common Quote by David Harsanyi

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some of the roles I play are very demanding. My body and brain can't separate what is real fear from what is played fear.

— Sofia Helin

“Fear and I played peek-a-boo - it always seemed to grab my balls and twist just when it felt like something inside me could…

— James Ellroy

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's…

— Juliette Lewis

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems…

— Julian Barnes

You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's…

— Neil Gaiman

“Although her father had told her of the nature of the one who waited for her, she could not control an instinctual shudder of…

— Angela Carter

“Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.”

— Daniel Kahneman

I think that it's rational to fear your own death or to fear harm to your family.

— Martha Nussbaum

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out…

— Anonymous

“I didn’t say it was a rational fear. But the worst fears aren’t, are they?”

— Kelley Armstrong