Afraid Quotes

I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.'

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.