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"Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible."
"FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE"
"If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life."
"The fears you dont face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond."
"Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude."
"Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look."
"Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly."
"The fear's as bad as falling."
"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe."
"ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors."
"I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me."
"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath."
"Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear."
"O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?"
"Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more."
"What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?"
"When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?"
"My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind."
"Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain."
"He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price."
