#fear

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

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#discipline #enemy #fear #making #more

Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#fearful #four #i #into #knew

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

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#chamberlain #closet #fear #found #gay

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine! ↗

— Peter Cushing

#cannot #characters #creations #current #fear

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#bills #black #cling #cutting #fear

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#desire #easily #everyone #fear #very

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#die #fear #happy #laugh #must

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ↗

— Henry Ford

#better #bothers #business #competitor #feared