Afraid Quotes
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I love pencil skirts, but I'm always looking for a top. And then I'm afraid, by myself, to match, to try colors. When I wear a dress, I know the top matches the bottom. So I can't make a mistake.
Celine Dion
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Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.
Amy Lee Evanescence
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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.
Katherine Rundell
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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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.
Alfred de Musset
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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.
Samantha Shannon
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We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
Zack Wamp
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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.
Earl Nightingale
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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.
Flannery O'Connor
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Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
Bob Galvin
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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.
Stevie Wonder
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Elena Ferrante
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Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
R. L. Stine
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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.
Nadia Comaneci
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Taylor Caldwell
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
Mike Tyson
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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.'
Ted Yoho
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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.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
Billy Joel
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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.
Carl Andre
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Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
Tammy Faye Bakker