“Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.”

— Vanna Bonta

"The Enemy"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

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Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 34, “I Am M’urgi/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 312)

“You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.”

Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter

“To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.”

Sharon G. Flake book The Skin I'm In

Source: The Skin I'm In

“Trojans beware, within some Mischief lyes;
Be what it will, Greeks bringing Gifts I fear.”

John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.”

E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer

Salt Water Farm http://books.google.com/books?id=njRHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+despot+doesn't+fear+eloquent+writers+preaching+freedom+he+fears+a+drunken+poet+who+may+crack+a+joke+that+will+take+hold%22&pg=PA52#v=onepage
One Man's Meat (1942)

“I don’t see a way in,” Eve whispered.
Why are you whispering?” Myrnin whispered back. “Vampires can hear us, anyway.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fade Out

“Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Book I, Chapter 10.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“When anything is blocking my head or there's worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don't see the fear. You don't see the pain. You don't see thought. It's just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn't.”

Heath Ledger (1979–2008) Australian actor

As quoted in an interview in Vanity Fair (August 2000).

“What's up with the racewalkers? I mean I respect them as athletes but come on… a contest to see who can walk the fastest is like having a contest to see who can whisper the loudest.”

Bob Costas (1952) American sportscaster

On the September 24, 2000 Olympic w:racewalk broadcast, quoted in "No Respect for Olympic Racewalking" https://www.verywellfit.com/no-respect-for-olympic-racewalking-3435871

“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.”

Herta Müller book The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 198

“Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.”

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