My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would... →
Ben Stein
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were... →
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have... →
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.
Mattie Stepanek
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution,' an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in... →
John Paul Stevens