“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake.”
“A man fears that conflict with his wife will lead to less intimacy, not more intimacy.”
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 17.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/100634
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
“Henceforth the majesty of God revere;
Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.”
Answer to a Gentleman who apologized to the Author for Swearing. Compare: "Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte" (translated: "I fear God, dear Abner, and I have no other fear"), Jean Racine, Athalie, act i. sc. 1 (1639–1699); "From Piety, whose soul sincere/ Fears God, and knows no other fear", W. Smyth, Ode for the Installation of the Duke of Gloucester as Chancellor of Cambridge.
Elsie Venner (1859)
Context: If a man has a genuine, sincere, hearty wish to get rid of his liberty, if he is really bent upon becoming a slave, nothing can stop him. And the temptation is to some natures a very great one. Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. In common life we shirk it by forming habits, which take the place of self-determination. In politics party-organization saves us the pains of much thinking before deciding how to cast our vote.
“From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.”
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 45 (p. 458)
