#fear

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#dread #fear #get #get married #greater

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#fear #head #heart #how #i

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#common #eminent #fear #few #give

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#desire #failure #fear #greater #order

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#been #burning #could #especially #eyes

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ↗

— Roger Craig

#became #better #better person #conquered #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