Afraid Quotes

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to… — Katherine Mansfield
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to… — James Madison
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will. — Dixie Lee Ray
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid. — Thomas Hood
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end. — Viktor Yushchenko
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.… — Patricia Sun
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… — James Harrington
Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. — David Thewlis
The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is… — Kevin J. Anderson
Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended… — Mary C. Jones
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. — Mary Harris Jones
Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so… — Emmy Rossum
We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough. — Keith Miller
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. — William John Wills
As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it. — Richard Morris
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows;… — Henry Hudson
I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I… — Anne Campbell
In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years… — Michael Ritchie
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast… — Robert Dale Owen
How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was? — Ryan White

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