Afraid Quotes

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid.

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.

I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.

You know what worries me? Interacting with the kids. I'm afraid that's when my Tourette's will kick in.

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.