I started thinking: ‘Okay, what’s wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of? – Valerie Bertinelli
I was very afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do this job well. And the time never came back. – Sharon Olds
The GOP doesn’t seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. – Timothy Noah
Don’t be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have just gone for it. Guys are such wimps. – Tony Hawk
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority. – William Jennings Bryan
People are afraid because I’m candid. They’re always worried I’m going to get into trouble. – Steve Madden
I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I’ve always been afraid of that in my own life. – Steven Heighton
The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. – Taslima Nasrin
Whatever adults don’t understand, because they didn’t grow up with it, is the thing they’re going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll. – Warren Spector
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. – Soren Kierkegaard
I returned to Vietnam in ’94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so. – Tim O’Brien
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you’re afraid it’s going to upset someone, don’t publish it. – Wendy Cope
I’m afraid that I’m either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I’m going to get somewhere. – Yaphet Kotto
When you come from a background like mine, where you’re entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid. – Sonia Sotomayor
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new. – Vinod Khosla
Texture is something we forget – it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you’re afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest. – Stacy London
I’ve always been a person who’s been true to myself and true to others, and I’m not afraid to be honest. – Tamar Braxton
The interesting thing is that you don’t often meet a poet who doesn’t have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers. – Wendy Cope
