Afraid Quotes

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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.

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

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?

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.'