Quotes with afraid

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  • Norman Schwarzkopf True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world
    Q Magazine interview,Nov 2010
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Brene Brown We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Abigail Adams Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Audre Lorde What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 41
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Audre Lorde When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
    The Cancer Journals (1980)
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Audre Lorde When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Brad Feld When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Katherine Mansfield When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Audre Lorde When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
    The Black Unicorn: Poems (1995) 25
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Tim O'Brien When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 183
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Earl Nightingale Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Camille Pissarro Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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