Afraid Quotes

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.