How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Applying criminal law to the exchange of bitcoin on behalf of ransomware victims would create a morally shocking result of re-victimizing a victim. All lawfully operating digital currency exchanges would thereafter refuse to exchange bitcoin for ransomware victims for fear of criminal culpability.

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

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?

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

We fear the thing we want the most.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

I have a fear of being boring.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

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

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Fear is excitement without breath.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

No one should have to live in fear.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.