Afraid Quotes

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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid. — Andrew Pyper
We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us. — Peter Benchley
I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me. — Terry Zwigoff
Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who… — Gary Johnson
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person… — Aristotle
I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers. — Violette Leduc
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers;… — Stephen Hawking
When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult… — Michael Cadnum
I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio. — Valerie June
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. — H. L. Mencken
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go… — Hale White
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. — Henry Van Dyke
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. — Lady Bird Johnson
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. — Plato
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… — John F. Kennedy
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. — Robert Anthony
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of. — Gerhard Schroder
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. — John Gray

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