To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. – Homer Epistles, Book 1.
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. – Gouverneur Morris
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. – Hunter S. Thompson
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. – Harry S Truman
You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it’s not a legitimate regime, it doesn’t represent the will of the people, it’s kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy. – Hillary Clinton
America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It’s the most alien country I’ve ever been to. – Helen McCrory
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out. – Greg Iles
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. – Hunter S. Thompson
Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, ‘I have two moms – it’s cool.’ I don’t fear that at all. – Henry Rollins
I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. – Hans Blix
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out – while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. – Harry Browne
I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion – not necessarily when I’m expecting it. You just have to cope with it – take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform. – Helen Mirren
I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase. – Hiram Rhodes Revels
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. – Hale White
People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest. – H. R. McMaster
There’s just a certain fear that people have when they put meat coming out of a printer in their mouth. – Homaro Cantu
I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. – Hedy Lamarr
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. – Hans Bender
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. – Harold Kushner
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. – Henri Nouwen
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. – Hermann Hesse
The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as ‘creating a new reality’ for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you’re meant to be. – Guy Finley
I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing. – Goenawan Mohamad
With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and… with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along. – Heber J. Grant
I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn’t get off the ground. – Herb Kelleher