Afraid Quotes
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I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.
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When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.
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Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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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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We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
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I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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My compliance without participation began to disorientate him. I thought, as always in those circumstances, that I should pretend a yearning and uncontrolled passion or push him away. But I didn't dare to either one or the other: I was afraid I would throw up, because the result would be earthquake-like waves. I had only to wait.
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For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
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Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
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I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
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I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.
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With all the problems we are having, I won't be afraid to tell leadership, 'You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.'
