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“Sometimes I pick up a magazine and read a piece of film criticism — to the end only if I like it. I don't like those which are too free with praise because their reasons seem wrong and that annoys me. Critics who attack me do so for such contradictory reasons that they confuse me, and I am afraid that if I am influenced by one, I will sin according to the standards of the other.”
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.”
Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.”
Frances Wright (1795–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists ? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.”
Felix Adler (1851–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it all in that pretty little head of yours? What goes on in that place in the dark? Well I used to know a girl and I would have sworn that her name was Veronica Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own and a delicate look in her eye These days I'm afraid she's not even sure if her name is Veronica.”
Elvis Costello (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe and you beg and you promise And you bargain and you plead Sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus It's the big white beard I suppose. Im going up to the pole, where you folks die of cold I might be gone for a while if you need me.”
Elvis Costello (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been thinking about our conversation and about your book, and I am afraid that I expressed myself badly yesterday. When I said that one may love and be loved at any age I ought to have added that sometimes this love comes too late. It comes when one no longer has the right to prove to the loved one how much she is loved, except by love's sacrifice.”
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.”
Chuichi Nagumo (1887–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Energy Technology XI: Applications and Economics" - Page 988 - Richard F. Hill - Science - 1975
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”
Deepak Chopra (born 1946) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life (2004)
“I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.”
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mother told me to be something so I'm afraid enough to stay wide awake”
Matthew Good (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I die hard but am not afraid to go. I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long.”
George Washington (1732–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The first sentence here is sometimes presented as being his last statement before dying, but they are reported as part of the fuller statement, and as being said in the afternoon prior to his death in Life of Washington…
“Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: The Bible
“Arise, and be not afraid.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, and the living one, and I became dead, but look! I am living forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of the Grave.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The loudest voice in the room is usually the most afraid of silence.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Murder, I’m afraid, if someone does not intervene.” He laughed. “Oh, you women are so melodramatic. Do no expect me to catch you when you faint.” “I would rather hit the ground. Good day, sir.”
Mary Robinette Kowal (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fire was everything Joey wanted to be. Exciting. Dangerous. Beautiful. Destructive. And yet he controlled it. Other people were too boring, too afraid to do what he did.”
“But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we’ll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can’t win if we have no faith to begin. We’ve got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men who are afraid live longer.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll be over your head Ecto Now don't be afraid Ecto Don't reach out Ecto Just be glad that I exist Ecto”
Happy Rhodes (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The success of any freedom of information regime depends on two main factors: A tightly drawn law with a clear statement of intent that makes clear statement of intent that makes clear a presumption of openness, and a bold regulator who is tough and not afraid to exert his authority and challenge government interests.”
Heather Brooke (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?”
Demi Lovato (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So young when the pain had begun Now forever afraid of being loved.”
Demi Lovato (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who have never fought suppose that the deserter who flies the field is consumed by shame. He is not, or he would not desert; with only trifling exceptions, battles are fought by cowards afraid to run.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most Christians know next to nothing about the life and teachings of Christ and are afraid to learn, sensing that the knowledge will upset their preconceptions.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sun of Helioscope", in Castle of the Otter (1982), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
“It occurred on the evening before Waterloo, And troops were lined up on parade, The Sergeant inspecting 'em he was a terror, Of whom every man was afraid”
Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
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John Roecker (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want the EU to end but I want it to end democratically. If it doesn't end democratically I'm afraid it will end very unpleasantly.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage in heated BBC debate over EU BBC News (3 April 2014)
“I did 23 nights in that jungle. And it changed me. I've come out a completely different person [...] Because I am not afraid of anything now.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish “development priorities” — which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.”
John James Cowperthwaite (1915–2006) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 27, 1968, page 212.
“[Asked about Richard Desmond] I do disapprove of him. How could I not? It would be ridiculous if I didn't. I met him once and to my great shame and regret I shook hands with him. Good manners, I'm afraid, prevented me from refusing to shake his hand.”
Peter Hitchens (born 1951) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Look forward in anger", The Guardian (14 November 2005).
“The schizophrenic is seen to be afraid of the nihilistic void that … will remain when a rigid world-view is discarded.”
John Carroll (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Often you only have to ask What would I do if I were not afraid?”
James Richardson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.”
Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“DON'T BE afraid to be alone. IT IS THEN you are with the creator”
Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don’t be afraid of being alone. We were born alone and will die alone”
Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'I am not afraid of seven crores of Muslims in India but I think, the seven crores in India, plus the armed hordes of Afghanistan, Central Asia, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Turkey will be irresistible. Are we then doomed?’”
Lala Lajpat Rai (1865–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had to read it out to my sister, who was witness to my early dark days, when my mother was afraid what would happen to me. But, I knew I couldn't read without choking up, so I asked Gautami to read it out for me.”
Kamal Haasan (born 1954) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About the letters from Balachander, in “His Master's voice 1 September 2010
“There were difficulties.” “Oh,” she said, “so you’re the man whose life develops complications! I’ve so longed to meet you; the rest of us here in this world have it much too easy, I’m afraid.”
Scott Lynch (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not a communist, but I'm not anti-communist either. I'm not afraid of communists, and declare that if a country wants to be communist, it has the right to be so.”
Norodom Sihanouk (1922–2012) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said during his exile in Peking, as quoted by Oriana Fallaci (June 1973), Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011).
“Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.”
James Northcote (1746–1831) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by William Hazlitt in Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. (1830)
“Well, I think my skills are in getting things started. ... In fact, that's what I enjoy most — it's the opening game. And I'm afraid that once it gets past that point I get rather bored with it and want to do other things. ... The other thing I'm good at is talking.”
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m afraid not. According to the law, you must leave here at once.” “But they’ll kill me!” “That’s very true,” Frendlyer said. “Unfortunately, it can’t be helped. A victim, by definition, is one who is to be killed.” “I thought this was a protective organization.” “It is. But we protect rights, not victims. Your rights are not being violated.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you have any papers for Will Barrent?” “None,” the lawyer said. “His case is in different hands. I’m afraid it might not be completely processed until after the Games are over.” “But I’ll probably be dead then,” Barrent said. “That, I can assure you, won’t stop the papers from being properly served,” the fat lawyer said proudly. “Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why is it that once having decided what I must do, I'm afraid to reexamine my decision? Maybe because the original decision cost me so much that I didn’t want to go through it again.”
John Varley (1947–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People were afraid of her because she was undismayed about the facts of life--any of them--all of them.”
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pacific revolution in America will not be wrought by men who are afraid of losing influence, position, and income. Building a new world is the most perilous form of pioneering, and the most glorious victories of religion have ever been won in hours of fiercest danger. And so it will be in our day.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.”
Brené Brown (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have been living in our long winter night for forty-five years. But today, even the corps of Zahhak feel the light, and the reverberation of Iranian's liberation steps has made their dark hearts afraid.”
Reza Pahlavi (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source