Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
Ovid

Love is full of anxious fears.
Ovid

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Mencius

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.
Christopher Eccleston

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Isaac Asimov

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
Virginia C. Andrews

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
Meryl Streep

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus

My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
Melanie Klein

Never take counsel of your fears.
Andrew Jackson

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
Avi Arad

No one loves the man whom he fears.
Aristotle

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
David Icke

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Charles D. Broad

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

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
Fiona Apple