Quotes by Authors - Page 180

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Henry David Thoreau
The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
Dorothy Thompson
There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Joanna Field
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Jawaharlal Nehru
This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
Bill W.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Louis L'Amour
The horse does abominate the camel the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse and they say that the lion which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal will tremble at the crowing of a cock.
Increase Mather
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.
James De Mille
In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?
Hannah More
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.
Ralph Connor
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
Fear has a smell as Love does.
Margaret Atwood
The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
Eric Hoffer
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.
O. J. Simpson
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S Eliot
So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
There is so much good in the worst of us And so much bad in the best of us That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.
Anonymous
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
Charles Dickens
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
Henry Miller
God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.
Sophie Rostopchine Sigur
Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
Samuel Butler
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
Russell Green
How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?
Bob Dylan
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.
Marco Carson
When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.
Lord Chesterfield
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
Richard Hofstadter
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Stendhal
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
Henry David Thoreau
A love of fashion makes the economy go round.
Liz Tilberis
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
Some people tell us that there ain't no Hell But they never farmed so how can they tell?
Anonymous
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel Montaigne
Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family to a cat you are staff.
Anonymous
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop
When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."
Anonymous
I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.
Martin Fenton
A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.
Anonymous
I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .
Susan Lucci
In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.
Phyllis Diller
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
Erma Bombeck
My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said "Okay since you owe me the other five dollars we'll call it even."
Anonymous
Sis I've been wondering . . . On my birthday mom always gives me five thousand dollars. How much does she give you?
Anonymous
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."
Anonymous
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children - except in self-defense.
Fred Allen
It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts but this is not true of a family tree.
Anonymous