Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Nate Robertson

Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Leadership is not about being afraid to lead or make mistakes, ... the whole culture is about being safe and risk averse.

Susan Chapman

So many bad things have happened, they are afraid to hope. Until it's actually voted on by the commission, they're afraid to have any trust in the process.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Alexander McCall Smith

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Don DeLillo

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Amber Valletta

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Chuck Palahniuk

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Chuck Palahniuk

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

Christopher Marlowe

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

Dashiell Hammett

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Tana French

We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

Sylvia Plath

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Rumi

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Rumi

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Stanislav Grof

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Stanislaw Lem

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

Sigmund Freud

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Paul Desmond

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.