#fear

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#afraid #along #been #being #bigots

There's no fear when you're having fun. ↗

— Will Thomas

#fun #having #having fun #no fear #you

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#done #fear #figure #get #haven

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#downside #each #fear #including #instead

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? ↗

— James Thurber

#fear #matter #oblivion #opposition #sleep

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind. ↗

— Edward Walker

#action #become #character #deadly #fear

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ↗

— Mark Twain

#any #die #fear #follows #fully

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#always #appeal #circumstances #colored #desire

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#confused #fear #greatness #i #power

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#fantasy #fearless #fears #had #half