If you have stage fright it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

I wish there were more true conversion and then there would not be so much backsliding and for fear of suffering living at ease when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

I took a Fear of Flying class and I always missed the class because I was always flying.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

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 not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

I try to get in quiet time and book time but really the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep and it's the only time I get to read.

Fame does lead to money which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it because I grew up without it.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

I am pretty fearless and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well I'm not a good terrified person.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion and can never be without desire nor without fear no more than without sense.

To me my biggest fear is getting a big head and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear and then to go for higher causes higher purposes.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid because freedom is on the march.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Therefore when I considered this carefully the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime because deep down it's not a legitimate regime it doesn't represent the will of the people it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

I write for those women who do not speak for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us but it won't.