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Births

• 1862 - Carolyn Wells
• 1949 - Chris Van Allsburg
• 1941 - Delia Smith
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• 1982 - John Cheever
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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Live

• When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Evil, Feelings, Listening

• I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father’s shotgun.

  Earl Allen

  Topics in Father, Fear, Love, Wedding

  Tags in Shotgun, Marriage

• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Topics in Fear, Future, History

  Tags in Regret

• Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Achievement, Fear

  Tags in Mankind

• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Achievement, Fear

  Tags in Mankind
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  There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

  Unknown

  Topics in Dream, Failure, Fear

  Tags in Thing, Achieve, Impossible

• Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

  Max Frisch

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Jealousy

• Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Fear, Suffering

  Tags in Illusions, Imagination

• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  Bill Gates

  Topics in Business, Fear

  Tags in Feared, Ignorance

• Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

  Edward Albert

  Topics in Anger, Fear

  Tags in Parent, Ignorance

• I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it’s scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Topics in Attitude, Fear, Life

  Tags in Intention

• There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Interest

• They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

  Willie Aames

  Topics in Fear, Work

  Tags in Eating, Hours

• He that hopes no good fears no ill.

  Thomas Fuller

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Good, Hopes

• The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Fear, Power

  Tags in Consists, Resistance, Strength

• Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

  Theodore Bikel

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Grateful, People, Temptation

• Freedom from fear” could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Human Rights, Freedom, Philosophy

• … without darkness
  Nothing comes to birth,
  As without light
  Nothing flowers.

  May Sarton

  Topics in Challenge, Fear, Opportunity

• The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Generosity