In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the men were in some measure afraid of me; and I discoursed something about sanctifying the sabbath, if possible to solemnize their minds: but when they were at a little distance, they again talked freely about secular affairs. Oh, I thought what a hell it would be, to live with such men to eternity!
I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.
I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things.
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.
I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.
A man who is afraid will do anything.
I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.
Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)
If you can be not afraid to be laughed at, you could do so many things.
No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, 'No, because I'm afraid it wouldn't look good and wouldn't come back curly. '
Don't be afraid of the darkness; just carry a light with you!