#fears

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! ↗

— Frances Burney

#dare #dearest #dedicate #dislikes #fears

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#answered #best #creeds #dark #fears

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#always #anything #avoid #classify #contact

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#because #contains #explore #fear #fears

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. ↗

— Terri Clark

#chances #comfortable #courage #doing #face

Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful. ↗

— Timothy Findley

#fear #fears #him #his #informed

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#both #bulwark #certain #constitution #expression

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#bus #fears #get #happen #having

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. ↗

— Marilyn French

#explore #fear #fears #house #our

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#american #american people #anyone #charges #control