Afraid Quotes
5719 quotes by 3276 authors
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
— Sallust
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Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope;…
— Hartley Coleridge
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Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.
— Ludwig Borne
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Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how…
— Alfred Adler
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I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.…
— Primo Levi
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Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've…
— Paul Gauguin
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling…
— Paul Gauguin
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I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm…
— Claude Monet
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One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and…
— Andre Breton
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly…
— Ansel Adams
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I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
— U Thant
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I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be…
— Melissa Etheridge
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We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
— Pema Chodron
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Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real…
— Jackie Kennedy
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
— Miles Davis
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I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.
— Jeremy Paxman
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Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched…
— Fridtjof Nansen
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I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those…
— Richard Rohr
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I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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