Famous Quotes & Sayings

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'.

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

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.

There's a game of chicken going on with traders wanting to go short but too afraid of month-end demand to risk it. Anyway, nobody wants to be short in a holiday week when anything might happen geopolitically.

Geno Auriemma

There's some seniors that would be afraid to take that drive. You can't become great unless you're willing to suffer the consequences if it doesn't go in. You've just got to know it's going in.

Marcus Spears

There's no question he would have been a great offensive lineman. He would have been an All-American ? if he had wanted to play. Back in high school, he'd rag-doll those poor kids. Guys were so afraid they'd run over him that they'd just stand there and Glen would put a little move on them and shake them out of their shoes.

There's loud guitars, there's harmony, but even more importantly, this is a really positive album. I don't think we're afraid to put a really happy album out there. It's a party in a package.

Bobby Robson

There's nothing we won't do to try to bring success to Irish football. We need to spread our net, we need to find out where there are any more (players). We know what we should keep; we know what we need to collect. We've got to look further than the present crop. There's an awful lot of scouting to do but we're not afraid of that.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Chris Cooley

I started thinking playoffs the first game of the season, I'll be honest, ... That's the goal, you've got to think about it. We're for sure talking about what we've got to do in our division to get there, what it takes to get there. I don't think we're afraid to mention it. That's what we want to do.

We're physical ourselves, and we're not afraid to play physical. They might be slight in stature, but the girls can dish it out.

We tell the players that if you are thinking something, go ahead and say it... that fans want to know what they are thinking. We tell them not to be afraid to think out loud.

Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don't know, of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

We just got afraid of the press. (We've got a) semi-inexperienced bunch. ... They weren't coming to the ball and they weren't moving right. ... It's just an experience factor and an age thing.

We were really afraid of fires. These old houses are so close together that if one was set afire, the whole street would all go up. We lived in terror for a week.

We were playing like we were afraid to lose. I could just see it. We were afraid. But when I called that timeout with three or four minutes to go, I finally saw the will to win in their eyes. It finally showed up at the end of the game.

The public should not be afraid of searching for any information, no matter how personal and private it may be.

Manal al-Sharif

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

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.

Curt Schilling

The problem with hitters I think was they weren't sure who he (Pedro) wanted to hit. And he wasn't afraid to hit anybody.

Shane Smith

The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative.

Betty Friedan

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''

Those cracks show me I'm not the boss. But living on the fault also teaches you not to be afraid of every next moment, because you really can't live if you do.

John Travolta

Those are usually your better parts because you're not worried about the likeability, ... I think it's a great movie because of the idea that we're not afraid to be at moments unappealing and true to those people who are drinkers and are not always in the best mood. And they're often wicked. And they're sometimes emotional.

We are determined to bring a new audience to opera. If we don't, then I'm afraid the form will wither and die.

Brad Richards

We'll give it out best shot. We're not afraid of them.

We'll get back to work tomorrow and we'll understand that we'll have a team coming in that isn't worried about playing us. I don't think any team is going to come in concerned or afraid of playing us right now. We just have to find a way to scrap and claw out of this little hole ourselves.

Unfortunately, up to now, it has seemed that the Taiwan authorities are reluctant to talk about 'one China,' do not care to do so, and are afraid to do so,

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

Marsha Blackburn

Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here's the reason why - more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.