I Quotes
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“I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.”
“I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
“I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.”
Source: Heaven and Earth
“I fear for fresh trouble, and horror and mystery every moment.”
Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars
“I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery slope and those people are put in jeopardy, then we're really in trouble.”
“I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.”
“I fear for those innocent people. They're like butterflies on an anvil, waiting for a hammer to come down.”
“I fear getting things wrong and messing up, and this makes no rational sense. When I'm mindful and awake, I know mistakes are part of a creative process. But when I become disconnected, I can be incredibly mean and hard on myself.”
“I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.”
“I fear God and respect God and love God.”
“I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.”
Source: Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the American Indians
“I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.”
“I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.”
Source: The letters of Margaret Fuller
“I fear I must agree," Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. "I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest.”
“I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.”
“I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.”
“I fear,
if she would suspect me;
but I wish she wouldn’t;
for I am her teacher.”
“I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.”
“I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.”
“I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people are justified. ... Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you.”
“I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.”
Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn
“I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.”
“I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus”
“I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough.”
“I fear living a life similar to the movie "Groundhog Day", where I wake up in the morning, work eight to five, come home and watch television for a few hours, then go to bed, only to wake up the next day and do the same thing. Day after day. Month after month. Year after year. I don't want to look back on my year and see nothing but a long string of eight to fives.”
Source: Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack
“I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.”
“I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fear their fate, I fear me, in short. This is true…it’s like finding a river of gold when you haven’t even got a cup to save a cupful…you’ve but a thimble, and that thimble is your pathetic brain and labour and humanness.”
“I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.”
“I fear no darkness. For the light I see is always brighter than the light that surrounds me.”
“I fear no evil for I have loved it wholeheartedly.”
“I fear no fate for l am radiant with light
I win regardless with Jesus in me ,
For l am in him He is in me”
“I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet.”
“i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows”
Source: Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte
“I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place in it, thus: “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” The 19th-century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle put it slightly differently: “One life. A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.” Though I have many memories to cherish, I value the present, my time on earth, those around me now. I miss those who have departed, and recognize, painful as it is, that I will never be reunited with them. There is the here and now – no more. But certainly no less. Being an adult means, as Orwell put it, having the “power of facing unpleasant facts.” True adulthood begins with doing just that, with renouncing comforting fables. There is something liberating in recognizing ourselves as mammals with some fourscore years (if we’re lucky) to make the most of on this earth.
There is also something intrinsically courageous about being an atheist. Atheists confront death without mythology or sugarcoating. That takes courage.”
“I fear no insult or threat of violence,” the Hierarch went on, “Let us speak like intelligent beings.”
Source: Ceres
“I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.”
“I fear no man, no woman;
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you.”
“I fear no man. Sometimes I think I do not even fear God.”
“I fear no one, but respect everyone.”
“I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.”
“I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.”
Source: My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles
“I fear none, except for the enemies live within me”
“I fear not the fear; however, I realize and bear the criminals and pretenders who poison the surrounding. Stop if you advise and point someone indirectly since it shows gravely fear and weakness itself.”
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
“I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.”
“I fear nothing and I regret less.”
“I fear nothing being with you. Only being without you.”
Source: 24690
“I fear nothing but a life of unrealized dreams.”
“I fear nothing for God is with me!”