F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fear was keeping this loon going, as he was scrambling under the tables in this packed club, it was as if he was in a Carry On film and trying to hide from me. As the bouncers arrived, I was putting the boot in to the plonker without much success. He was like a bumblebee on speed!”
Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley
“Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized.”
“Fear was something that Sam was relatively adept at handling. She knew the two main kinds like the back of her hand—the fear that makes a person run and the fear that makes them fight. She didn’t particularly care for either, but the worst of the them was the fear that didn’t fit either of those categories—the fear so paralyzing it shut the brain down completely.”
Source: Acid Rain
“Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.”
Source: Stay
“Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.”
“Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.”
Source: The Iron Knight
“Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.”
“Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.”
Source: The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
“Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.”
Source: Fear No Evil
“Fear waters the weeds of regret.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Fear weakens you. Faith strengthens you. Focus propels you. Faithfulness rewards you.”
“Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.”
“Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.”
Source: My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
“Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.”
“Fear--who cares?”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Fear will always be a part of every growth process you put yourself through. It should never cripple you or keep you from taking the right leap.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.”
Source: Fear Not
“Fear will attempt to paralyze you from pursuing your dreams. Do not let it win. Use it as motivation to actualize your dreams.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Fear will be at my side no matter what I think or want, but I will not let it make me its prisoner. Not when my future holds more promise than my past.”
Source: Starheart
“Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back”
“Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.”
“Fear will give you Fight
Fight will give you Freedom
Dive in and Swim”
Source: Surface Tension
“Fear will hold you back from some of the most awesome experiences life has to offer, but you don’t have to let that happen. You can tell it, ‘Go away. Not today. Good-bye! In the name of Jesus.”
Source: Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose
“Fear will hunt you down right to the very depth of your soul”
“Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.”
“Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“Fear will keep you from accomplishing your dreams.”
“Fear will keep you grounded in the wrong way; take the leap and soar.”
“Fear will make a weak man hide, while a strong man will stand up and face his fear.
Pain will make a weak man cry, while a strong man will carry his scars with honor.
Envy will make a weak man jealous, while a strong man will work even harder to reach his goals.
Anger will consume a weak man, while a strong man will calm himself before he acts.
DON’T BE WEAK.”
“Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.”
“Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.”
“Fear, without joy, is torment; and joy, without holy fear, would be presumption.”
“Fear would have you believe that it starts with a capital letter, but it doesn't, not unless you put it at the start of the sentence or name your cat after it. Fear is not a proper noun. Fear is just fear, just another workday noun or sometimes verb trying to find its place in the lexicon. Like all bullies, it wants you to believe it's tougher than it really is.”
Source: Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
“Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked.”
Source: Questions and Answers on Conversations with God
“Fear, you are not welcome in my mind.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“Fear, you have to pack your shit and move the fuck out.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that." Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.”
“Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!”
“Fear your enemy and will have filled his arsenal with the most potent weapon of all.”
“Fear, your fear takes hold of you…I can smell it. You are in my world now, and in my world, darkness is light.”
Source: The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
“Fear your friends. Beware of your close friends. Be alert to whom you cast your trust. Because not all of them will help you to build your future. Some are just pretending to be. Some are just there because they need your hand. Some are secretly pulling you down. Some are just there because simply they need you. They will leave you anytime. Be careful.”
“Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave.”
“Fear's contagious, but so is courage.”
“Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.”
“Fear's the only obstacle that gets in the way of doing what we love. Fear holds us back from living the lives we're made to live.”
“Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”
Source: The Demon's Lexicon
“Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.”