You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire. " "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes. " I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted.
My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
I'm afraid love is just a word.
Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.
Don’t be afraid, be terrified
So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.
She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away. . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.
Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.
In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions. . . Adolf Hitler in London.
I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.
I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.
Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.
Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).
Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.