#fear

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!? ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#fear #humour #phobias #twitter #age

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #beat #fear #hearts #i

Sometimes, if she was afraid, she’d take all her fear and gather it up and turn it into anger. Anger didn’t paralyze the way fear did. It was the opposite of being helpless. But it was dangerous too, because you could end up being angry all the time. ↗

— Dan Krokos

#conquer-fear #anger

Your children don't have to fear you to respect you. ↗

— Michael Madsen

#fear #respect #you #your

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#fearsomeness #fury #humor #anger

In the ring, I never really knew fear. ↗

— Rocky Marciano

#i #knew #never #really #ring

People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes. ↗

— Liz Rosenberg

#philosophy-of-life #purpose #change

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#based #behavior #cowardly #eternal #ethical

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death. ↗

— Gavin de Becker

#fear #feminism #gender #men #rape

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fear #passion