Irrational Fear famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.
-- Chris Hadfield

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The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
-- Louis D. Brandeis

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I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.
-- Tim Allen

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I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.
-- Tori Spelling

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Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.
-- Peter van Agtmael

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Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.
-- David Heinemeier Hansson

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We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.
-- Russell D. Moore

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I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!
Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.
The media is the right arm of anarchy.
[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
I never let anybody get out of there a winner.
Rather than, as an actor, I want the audience to like me, I'm going to smile beautifully and I've got everybody's sympathy - what about showing the moments when somebody is unbelievably petty? Or really selfish? The faults, the little things, those are the things that interested me about playing the character.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.