Dick York Quotes

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

I sweat a lot because I get really nervous.

When I get nervous, my voice gets very high.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

The scalded head feares cold water.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

I've seen looks before that have literally taken my breath away - like someone on the red carpet and it's just like I can't even breathe, like you get some type of amazing anxiety.

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!

Where there is fear there is aggression.

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.