"Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when you know there is something to fear but you have not yet identified what it is. The fear that comes when you first realize that your spouse should have been home hours ago; when you hear a strange sound in the baby's bedroom; when you realize that a window you are sure you closed is now open, the curtains billowing, and you're alone in the house.
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Related Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that? Please try to describe the picture as ... DEYTH BANGER One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no f... DAVID DUCHOVNY One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear.... DAVID DUCHOVNY What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you we... MARLENE DIETRICH There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you we... MARLENE DIETRICH Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU When the reward is not worth it, when you have to force yourself to do it, when you start changing b... CHARBEL TADROS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fea... M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... DEYTH BANGER The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what:... AMITAV GHOSH Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY When you pick it up you realize that you are the first person to touch that object since someone lef... BILL WYMAN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear... PETER MCWILLIAMS The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fe... R. L. STINE There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you w... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving. CRAIG GROESCHEL Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. M.J. CROAN Fear is a natural emotion in life, but you cannot let it dictate your actions. When you act out of f... TIANA DALICHOV To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not im... C. JOYBELL C. Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave t... ANONYMOUS. There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most... HELEN MIRREN Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps... ANDREW SHUE The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do n... OSWALD CHAMBERS The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without... STANLEY COREN Real Victory is always within reach, fear is what you need to overcome and when you overcome fear, y... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When you see that you have hurt someone you care about, there are two options available. The first i... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER When you are walking on water it is fear, not sharks, that sinks you. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You are most free when you are with family,You can be who you are without the fear of judgement, Whe... TINA FRANSMAN-SELL Political asylum is granted when you've proven to the government that you have a well founded fear o... KAREN HANSCOM When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in wh... DAN O'BRIEN One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wing... K.J. KILTON There comes a moment when you realize what matters the most in your life. Let that moment be now and... DEBASISH MRIDHA It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear i... SHANNON L. ALDER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL There comes a time in your life when you have to choose between giving up and staying strong, when s... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE There comes a time in your life when you have to choose between giving up and staying strong, when s... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER if there is any worry in your mind, and if at that moment the words 'My Lord' comes to your lips, th... SWAMI SHARNANAND JI The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you pro... DWYANE WADE When you are in the bottom of that dark pitch black well you have to look up and see that there is a... LEONARDO SANABRIA Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil... WENDELL BERRY Celebration when your plan is working? Anyone can do that. But when you realize that the story of yo... SHAUNA NIEQUIST When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sl... RACHEL COHN And believe in what I have revealed, verifying that which is with you, and be not the first to deny ... QURAN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON There is no such thing as fear until you allow it to enter your heart. If I told you what really hap... SUZY KASSEM The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was... OSKAR KOKOSCHKA Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience... WAYNE DYER When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insan... ANTHONY KIEDIS The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promi... PAULO COELHO There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis... JOYCE CAROL OATES The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It come... ECKHART TOLLE You and I are both like guys that have a rich neighbor... Xerox... that left the door open all the t... BILL GATES IN PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer... JOSEPH J. LHOTA See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ... ROBBIE COLTRANE See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ... ROBBIE COLTRAINE There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in w... JAMES SALTER You got to have a lot of desire I guess and then the other thing is you got can't have any fear, and... WALT DAVIS I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes... CRISS JAMI Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of... PAULO COELHO Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair ... MARIAN ANDERSON The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS what came first the chicken or the egg, is not relevant when you realize what comes around goes arou... PRATIK SHARDA The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that yo... SORIN SUCIU When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that yo... PHIL MCGRAW The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you c... SHAUNA NIEQUIST There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when th... OTTMAR HITZFELD Your first reaction when you hear something like this is that someone must be kidding around, but th... SGT. LOWELL DEPALMA There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive adv... MARTIN O'MALLEY Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA 'What is your desired salary?' The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever p... TRAVIS BRADBERRY When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and t... WAYNE ROONEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Love and relations is a funny game, you want it so much but you hide away protecting yourself in fea... /USER/LENNOX/MY_QUOTES/1 When the sun comes out, you have this feeling that you want things to be fresh and to have some colo... JANICE HENRY Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you h... ANGELA ROBINSON The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rath... SHANNON L. ALDER Lifes biggest fear, is fear itself.
Fear makes you lose your sense of trust.
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ORSON SCOTT CARD I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a cha... ORSON SCOTT CARD The piggies were not to be disturbed- ORSON SCOTT CARD Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. ORSON SCOTT CARD But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if ... ORSON SCOTT CARD I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war ORSON SCOTT CARD We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world o... ORSON SCOTT CARD I’m not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven’t found one yet, that I didn’t say... ORSON SCOTT CARD The computer is also not famous for having mercy. ORSON SCOTT CARD Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me. ORSON SCOTT CARD I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his... ORSON SCOTT CARD Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes. ORSON SCOTT CARD The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of thos... ORSON SCOTT CARD Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha... ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like ... ORSON SCOTT CARD You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer. ORSON SCOTT CARD I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable. ORSON SCOTT CARD I thought commanders could order anything.” "They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but i... ORSON SCOTT CARD Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do,... ORSON SCOTT CARD Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. ORSON SCOTT CARD That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every br... ORSON SCOTT CARD We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shor... ORSON SCOTT CARD I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled i... ORSON SCOTT CARD When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes. ORSON SCOTT CARD Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans. ORSON SCOTT CARD There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do ... ORSON SCOTT CARD He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding. ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officer... ORSON SCOTT CARD I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide. ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. ORSON SCOTT CARD At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD ORSON SCOTT CARD No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the mo... ORSON SCOTT CARD