Afraid Quotes

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

I'm not afraid to die.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.