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" The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. "

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" The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance. "

Kailash Satyarthi

" If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it. "

" To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. "

" Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? "

Mary Manin Morrissey

" Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it. "

" Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects. "

Michael O'Donoghue

" I make up names for people all the time - it's part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do. "

" There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be. "

" Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. "

Francis of Assisi

" Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends. "

" For me, there is only love and fear. "

" Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear. "

" A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride. "

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

" I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. "

" Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure. "

Cesare Beccaria

" I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. "

Louisa May Alcott

" Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way. "

" It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. "

" It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. "

Georges Bernanos

" When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. "

" Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method. "

" Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it. "

" Always do what you are afraid to do. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. "

" The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility. "

" Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. "