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There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

The strongest passion is fear.

Jean de La Fontaine

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Fontaine

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.

Timothy Findley

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.