It was a brave man indeed who could look upon a clan of Feegles and not want to tie the bottoms of his trousers together. (SC)
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‘You know where you are with big-brained monsters, but gods are another matter.’ (DSS)
Oh, I never stop to find out why people are chasing me, sir. I never look behind either. That'd be rather silly, sir.' (LH)
The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of innocents everywhere. (FE)
You always feel foolish running away from something that isn't chasing you. (Dig)
Nearly as bad as discovering all your worst fears are coming true, Snibril thought, is finding out that they're not. (CP)
'When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.' (CP)
There was the silence made by something frightened in fear of its life. There was the silence made by small creatures, being still. There was the silence made by big creatures, waiting to pounce on small creatures. Sometimes there was the silence made by no one being there. And then there was a very sharp, hot kind of silence made by someone there - watching. (CP)
There were times that called for mindless, terror-filled panic, and times that called for measured, considered, thoughtful panic. (LC)
Humanity was very creative, when it came to bring frightened. It was good at filling the future full of dread. (TG)
'You're just a coward really, aren't you?'
'Yes, but I've never understood what's wrong with the idea. It takes guts to run away, you know. Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.' (LH) Their eyes said that wherever it was, they had been there. Whatever it was, they had done it, sometimes more than once. But they would never, ever, buy the T-shirt. And they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people. (LH)
'You have nothing to fear but fear itself.'
'Oh, is that so? What help is that? You think that makes it better? Well, let me tell you, some of that fear can be pretty big and nasty -' (SD) ... he was suffering simultaneously from claustrophobia and agoraphobia. He was afraid of everything in here and everything out there at the same time. (J)
'... we're not going to be intimated by the certain prospect of complete and utter failure ...' (H)
A psychiatrist, dealing with a man who fears he is being followed by a large and terrible monster, will endeavour to convince him that monsters don't exist. Granny Weatherwax would simply give him a chair to stand on and a very heavy stick. (Ma)
But Magrat, like this, frightened him more than the elves. It was like being charged by sheep. (LL)
The time to start running was around about the 'e' in 'Hey you!' (IT)
He was one of those people who would recoil from an assault on strength, but attack weakness without mercy. (MA)
The Axiom 'Honest men have nothing to fear from the police' is currently under review by the Axioms Review Board. (MA)
There was a chorus of nervous laughs, such as there always is from people who owe their jobs and possibly their lives to the whim of the person who has just cracked the not very amusing line. (SG)
If people don’t respect then they won’t fear; and if they don’t fear, how can you get them to believe? (SG)
Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourishes underground. (SG)
… people are riddled with Doubt. It is the engine that drives them through their lives. It is the elastic band in the little model aeroplane of their soul, and they spend their time winding it up into knots. Early morning is the worst time – there’s that little moment of panic in case You have drifted away in the night and something else has moved in. This never happened to Granny Weatherwax. She went straight from fast asleep to instant operation on all six cylinders. She never needed to find herself because she always knew who was doing the looking. (WA)
Granny sniffed. ‘Do they speak highly of me?’ she said.
‘No, they speak quietly of you, Esme.’ ‘Good.’ (SLF) |
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