Afraid Quotes
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The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.
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The repeal of don't ask, don't tell didn't change things for transgender people in the military. What it has done, though, I think, is it has taught our military leaders that they don't need to be afraid of these issues.
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He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.
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Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
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One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
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Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.
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We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
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I am completely half afraid to think.
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Mrs. Mitcham had seen more love about in the flat than she could remember during the whole of poor Mr. Cumfrit’s time in it. She couldn’t help wondering what that poor gentleman would say if he could see what was happening in his flat. He wouldn’t much like it, she was afraid; but perhaps hardly anybody who was dead would much like what they would see, supposing they were able to come back and look.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
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…Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.
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You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.
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People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
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You can make people do anything if they're afraid.
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When we’re afraid, we have a tendency to pray and ask God for peace before we’ll step out and do what frightens us. But most of the time, we simply need to move forward.
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If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
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We are all afraid of the truth.
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The Buddha said, ‘Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.’ I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.
