Afraid Quotes
5719 quotes by 3491 authors
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We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be…
— Gore Vidal
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The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.
— Gregory Benford
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not…
— Nadia Giosia
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It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.
— Sam Cooke
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Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We…
— Barry Sanders
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Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction.…
— Christa Wolf
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I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.
— Albert Reynolds
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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the…
— Clarence Darrow
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Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it…
— Dave Barry
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In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at…
— Lin Yutang
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The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can…
— Timothy Hallinan
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There isn’t anything I have to be afraid of, love is the answer.
— Gene Colan
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And I know you're not supposed to say 'Nazi Germany,' but I don't care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its…
— Benjamin Carson
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When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I…
— Benjamin Carson
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Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.
— Brené Brown
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The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each…
— Joseph Roth
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As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
— Scott Weiland
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No... the blues are because you're getting fat or because it's been raining too long. You're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible.…
— Holly Golightly
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The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going…
— Holly Golightly
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Save myself from death is that it?! Is that why I've come here?! I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death!
— American McGee
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