Afraid Quotes

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.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.