#fears

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. ↗

— Sophocles

#borne #child #even #fearsome #give

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#born #cannot #circumstances #differences #emotional

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#fears #optimist #pessimist #possible #possible worlds

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. ↗

— Ovid

#fears #man #perish #whom #wishes

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#comfortable #fears #get #go #go away

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#america #better #better future #bright #child

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#behind #believe #conquer #doing #experience

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment. ↗

— Gary Ross

#another #controlling #environment #fascism #fears

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#awe #banish #cannot #dangers #demean

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. ↗

— Steven Saylor

#author #derivative #even #evil #expression