fear influence Quotes

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was - I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?"

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

The movies I was scared by at three or four are now some of my favorite movies of all time.

I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!