Afraid Quotes

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

Long, Enough, Meaning

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Clint Eastwood

Nothing, Old, Used

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
Clint Eastwood

Doubt, Show, Older

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille Ball

Women, Hurts, Interest

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden

Spring, Obstacles, Eye

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land

Creativity, Fail, Essential

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Aeschylus

Learning, Storms, Ship

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Tori Amos

Love, Trust, Someone

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Tori Amos

Find, Try, Once

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
Marilyn Manson

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Audre Lorde

Words, Speak, Silent

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov

Loneliness, Marry

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing, Getting, Capable

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor

Age, Men, Older

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde

Nothing, Deliberate

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Walt Whitman

Love, Leave, Road

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. Truman

Men, Government, Mind

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Chuck Palahniuk

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen Hawking

Computers, Dark, Story

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E. Frankl

Fear, True, May

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter

Men, Future, Vision

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc

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

Religion, Men, Hate

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Why, Second

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mind, Away, Tell

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis

Love, Marriage, Respect

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel

Fool, Thinking, Wish

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Lee Trevino

God, Storm, Golf

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