Quotes About Fear

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.