Jane Austen Quotes
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Quotes to Explore
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.
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When you touch me, good God.
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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
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Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.
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Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
