#fears

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization. ↗

— George Saunders

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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#confide #father #fears #innermost #mother

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#been #die #fears #great #great person

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fears #hand #lighter #person

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes. ↗

— Tony Shalhoub

#fears #film #hopes #i #might

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#competition #dreads #fears #pride #rivals

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. ↗

— Stendhal

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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#aspirations #bible #distribution #fears #hopes

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#basement #basic #closet #dark #down