Afraid Quotes

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

I'm afraid of animals.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.