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He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Never take counsel of your fears.

Andrew Jackson

He who fears will suffer, he already suffers from his fear.

Michel de Montaigne

Man suffers most from the suffering he fears, but never appears, therefore he suffers more then god meant him to suffer.

Dutch Proverb

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Cyril Connolly

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Fulton J. Sheen

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Norman Cousins

Our fears always outnumber our dangers.

Latin Proverb

There are fears the data will be strong and Greenspan will lay the groundwork for tightening. In that environment, how do you bring in buyers?

Josh Stiles

Up to now, the worst fears have not been realized. He has found another style.

Hans Kung

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we're better than anyone else. Because it's our beliefs that are right, our doubts that are allowable ones, our fears which are legitimate.

Audrey Beth Stein

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

Zach Braff

We've been living with that (coup fears) for the last couple of months. It's par for the course.

Oliver Plana

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Sometimes we don't really know about our own fears. It's like confinement, but also comfort. There's a human level and there's a bird level.

Maddie Needles

I have a basic model ? if you avoid your fears, they increase. If you face them, they diminish.

Paul Jenkins

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Bryant H. Mcgill

I'm a little nervous, I'm scared. I have some fears.

Beth Mcneil

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Pietro Metastasio

It's horrible -- the worst fears ... something we can't control.

Bob Brennan

Its a realization that although consumer inflation has been benign, we always have these fears lurking in the background.

Anton Pil

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

David Sarnoff

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

Kristin Davis

I find myself having to choose between my hopes and my fears.

Chris Dodd

When a person casts his fears up to the Lord, then he helps with everything.

Vladimir Chernenko

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Ambrose Bierce

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher

The adult patients are able to express their fears, their emotions, their concerns, their wishes and their dreams in another manner.

Judith Paice

One of my biggest fears before we went public was, people would think of this as a toy, ... We think it's much more than that.

Dean Kamen

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Arthur Hugh Clough

The person who regularly recites mantra attains liberation from the fears of disease and death.

Yajur Veda

I couldn't even begin to tell you the fears [and] the anxieties I had. The only way I could cover it up was to laugh or eat.

Sarah Ferguson

There are fears of loss of lives, we are trying to get details.

Abdul Rehman

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)

They're ironic statements on the absurdity of our fears.

Paola Antonelli

The anvil fears no blows.

Romanian Proverb

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Arthur Koestler

I think what (the training) does is answers a lot of questions, gives them confidence and allays a lot of fears.

Cathy Hicks

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

We came away with a series of concerns, but we think we can allay their fears.

Paul Cross

He has his fears and he knows I could get really hurt out there.

Crystal Wheeler

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxter

The kids are learning from us, we're learning from them. They don't have any inhibitions. They don't have the fears.

Robin Prunty

This continues to demonstrate that this case involves something the Kremlin fears.

Robert Amsterdam

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Howard Thurman

Where the people fear the government you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty.

William Feather

To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.

Robert Herrick

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

James Graham

I will vote my hopes and not my fears.

Herb Kohl

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Jim Gallagher

I had no fears of missing. I just took it.

Troy Hudson

The same joys, the same fears.

Maudie Samiee

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

George Bancroft

Gary Fears had absolutely nothing to do with Hard Rock.

Robert Saunooke

That's a great number that basically calms a lot of the fears out there.

Anthony Chan

The Queen must still harbor fears for the future.

Max Hastings

The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be.

Bruno Bettelheim

There's definitely more buying in gold, obviously on inflationary fears. The funds have continued to buy.

Darren Heathcote

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

Sue Black

Our worst fears are coming true twice.

Julie Wilson

It's been long since I've lost all fears and concerns. I don't worry, I calculate.

Alexander Lebed

It lifts the burden of litigation fears from the share price.

Thomas Russo

The album is very naked. I've had some fears about how my fans will react to my music. Besides that, it's been six ... years. Will (fans) be checking for Eric Benet?

Eric Benet

There's been a lot of activity in restaurants and stores on fears there will be damage to their operations.

Evan Olsen

It was feeding instability and insecurity. There were these fears that after March 25 the mob would run the country.

Edil Baisalov

Well, I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears.

Ed Zwick