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... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.


Bernard Beckett

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing to fear is fear itself.
SCOTTY MCCOY The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT The only thing you have to fear is fear itself... and spiders.
ANONYMOUS Ultimately, the decision is theirs to make. Our responsibility, from our vantage point, is to make c...
DAVID LEAVY The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary.
DEVIN J. MONROE So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which par...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J.K. ROWLING Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. ROWLING Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING ...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . .nameless,...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.
SUZANNE COLLINS They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone has fear in life at some point. Some people work hard to get rid of fear from life, but thi...
ARVIND MEHTA The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J.K. ROWLING Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that ...
MARILYN MANSON Fear plays awful tricks on us. Disempowers our thoughts. Makes us physically sick. We think that we ...
THEE AMAZING GRACE There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I don't fear the slience. The only thing I fear is what could rest inside this.
SELVAGE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
SUZANNE COLLINS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.
WARREN EYSTER Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glori...
RUSSELL BAKER The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of t...
J.K. ROWLING Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage poin...
CHARLES LINDBERGH I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.
BETH ORTON I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.
BARBARA DELINSKY That was definitely a monkey off our backs. Now that fear against Duke is gone.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE From our vantage point, he definitely looked in, but the referee said he didn't make it in.
ADRIAN SMITH The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL EYQUEM While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delig...
FRANK RICH It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing...
BO BENNETT It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparin...
BO BENNETT No more running from fear from now on. I'm only going to run towards love.
JIM GENOVESE [On Nov. 2, the nation marked the one-year anniversary of van Gogh's slaying.] We must not allow our...
JAN PETER BALKENENDE Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scar...
NEIL GAIMAN We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of...
SUKARNO No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was ab...
MICHAEL GRANT There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
PAULO COELHO I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.
BETH ORTON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... This satsang (association with the Self) is the only thing that can establish a state that is free o...
DADA BHAGWAN - The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?'
- Yes.
- My Imagination.
- I thou...
STEPHEN KING It was kicked high and from my vantage point it was inside the (left) upright but it was waved wide ...
BOB LOMP We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
PAT PAULSEN Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.
JOHN MELLENCAMP We know no fear. It was cut from our souls at birth. We can feel it only as an absence, as an empty ...
JOHN FRENCH The only thing you ever have is now.
ECKHART TOLLE Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into ...
ECKHART TOLLE Life's irony;Fear the world for it is a dangerous place,for they are only waiting for you to arrive,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome the thing you greatly fear is by learning never to leave the thing you fear al...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The government resorts to fear itself. ... Irrational fear is not a legal basis to denying the next ...
BARRY LEVINE Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itsel...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of m...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Fear comes from attachments; we only fear what we are afraid to lose!
JOHNNY WALKER The thing of which I have most fear is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
BRIAN TRACY Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fea...
ANDREW ESCHENBACH Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fea...
ANDREW VON ESCHENBACH The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do n...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It's painful and nerve-racking. It has changed the dynamic, and to say it hasn't is a lie. Before, i...
JOSH HOLLOWAY Our position is that it was the politics of fear. We're not going away.
ALI NOORANI To live with Faith, eliminate Fear. Only one can exist in our Life at any point of time.-RVM
RVM Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet dis...
DALE CARNEGIE Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
LANCE ARMSTRONG Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.
MARTINA BOONE One factor which deprives one of success is fear, fear of failure, Remember there is nothing to fear...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull...
CORNELL WOOLRICH It was remarkable. The only explanation is that people feel so strongly about this issue that it ove...
MARIA JIMENEZ Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short , but when we have had our fill of frui...
EMERSON Nuclear is clear so near to fear and tear.
TOBA BETA Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lor...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought yo...
STEPHEN KING Was it possible that the emotion of love had somehow made me more susceptible to fear? Does the nobl...
VIVEK PEREIRA I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT She's turned the corner. It was that fear. Now she's doing the dives I want.
GREGG SHEIBLEY Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
MARK TWAIN I fear that money is the bottom line from a Catholic leader's point of view. The truth is, I feel be...
DENISE WHITE Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
FRANCIS BACON There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
JOHN WAINWRIGHT From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpo...
DAVID NICHOLLS Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...
MARIE CURIE Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN First, fear will mock you, then fear will taunt you, then fear will oppose you, and if you ignore it...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There is no such thing as fear until you allow it to enter your heart. If I told you what really hap...
SUZY KASSEM Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It was as if some magnetic repulsion, which before had kept our two carriages from meeting and passi...
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—Samuel Beckett, Wors...
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GALEN BECKETT Our biggest challenge was encouraging staff to be open-minded about anything that wasn't MS Office. ...
GAVIN BECKETT So far, the experience of migrating users has proved that the cost of migration is low and ease of u...
GAVIN BECKETT Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back....
SAMUEL BECKETT Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
SAMUEL BECKETT I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be s...
SAMUEL BECKETT I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETT What mattered to me in my dispeopled kingdom, that in regard to which the disposition of my carcass ...
SAMUEL BECKETT In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
SAMUEL BECKETT Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
SAMUEL BECKETT Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."

Samuel BECKETT, En a...
SAMUEL BECKETT أستطيع أن أميز بين الأصوات الخارجية.أوراق الشجر،تأوه ا...
SAMUEL BECKETT On. Stare on. Say on. Be on. Somehow on. Anyhow on. Till dim gone. At long last gone. All at long la...
SAMUEL BECKETT Fail better worse now.
SAMUEL BECKETT No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its wa...
SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETT When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett
SAMUEL BECKETT It is excellent news that we will soon be able to increase our supplies of home-produced beef.
MARGARET BECKETT VLADIMIR: What do they say?
ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives.
VLADIMIR: To have lived...
SAMUEL BECKETT He is also Ivan's best man and the whole family is going over to work out wedding arrangements and t...
LIAM BECKETT There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because ye...
SAMUEL BECKETT The Big Push is for artists who have proven their skill and all they need is exposure.
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