My aim then was to whip the rebels to humble their pride to follow them to their inmost recesses and make them fear and dread us.
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow hard bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Under the influence of fear which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things they magnified their enemies' resources and minimized their own.
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.
If you can once engage people's pride love pity ambition on your side you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong who will protect us? If they are not imperfect how can we equal them?
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
People are afraid and when people are afraid when their pie is shrinking they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears assuages anxiety.
My aim then was to whip the rebels to humble their pride to follow them to their inmost recesses and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
When a child can be brought to tears and not from fear of punishment but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy doubt or fear.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift also its greatest curse is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.
I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough he doesn't like interference at all so he kept them at bay.
I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
The seven wise men of Greece so famous for their wisdom all the world over acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person but the person whom you are about to discover. You know like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.