Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Gibbs

We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.

Nancy Gibbs

The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?

LZ Granderson

I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it needs to pay to keep top talent. I'm just afraid to think where all of this will end up because the overall impact seems to be stretching far beyond the scoreboard.

Mireille Guiliano

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

Jaclyn Smith

I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

Small businesses tend to be too small to hire consultants to help meet safety regulations. Sometimes small business owners are afraid of getting on Labor and Industries' radar screen.

SMR has a commitment to spending money to make money and they're not afraid to put money behind things they believe in. It's apparent everywhere in Lakewood Ranch.

Social services have always been difficult to run, especially when you're new. Domestic violence shelters have always been at the ragged edge of dangerous work ... and people are afraid of shelters.

At 14 years old, you shouldn't be afraid to walk the streets. You shouldn't be afraid to look out of the window. We just want the person that has done this to come forward and this community can be safe and that we can begin the healing process, because we lost an angel today.

Rod Smith

That's a huge accomplishment for them to be able to do that. I envy what they've done. It's not a matter of being jealous. I envy it. I'm not afraid of it. At the same time, it's a great opportunity to hopefully be the team that can say we stopped the run they've had.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

The Internet was a train, and you either got on it or you got run over. VCs were more afraid of being wrong than being right.

The Internet was a train, and you either got on it or you got run over, ... VCs were more afraid of being wrong than being right.

The location where he was living was too close to the government shelling, and I was afraid it would be shelled and I arranged another location for him to move to.

Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The days of the housing boom are over. It doesn't appear to be this burst bubble that everybody was afraid of, but it's certainly not this growth industry.

The day it comes down to me being afraid to come up and face somebody, that should be my last day in baseball.

An angle people don't always think of, is the economic and environmental damage the reservoir is already doing. Landowners don't know whether to build barns, fences, houses that might be inundated, whether to plant trees that might never be harvested. So they're not maximizing the economic use of the land. They don't know whether they'll be able to leave their family ranch to their children, so their children must try and plan their lives with a huge uncertainty. Some people have already clear-cut land because they're afraid they won't get the value of their trees if their land is condemned.

All of the girls played really hard tonight. We struggled a little at the end with their press but we were able to make up for it on defense. The girls are all really scrappy and they aren't afraid to hit the floor. I am proud of the hard work that they are giving it shows in practice and at the games.

The market is deadly afraid about what earnings are going to look like in the coming quarters,

At first, I was afraid to come here. Now, I'm not.

At first I was afraid of them; they're huge. They're regular kids. The more you know them, the smaller they get.

Dwight Howard

At first I couldn't grasp why he was always so hard on me. But I realize now he just wants me to be a great player. He knows that in my background no one ever really got on me. But he's not afraid to give me some tough love to make me better.

At first glance it might look like a concession by Slobodan Milosevic, but I am afraid that it's a question of a big trap and so there's no need to be euphoric.

A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

Adrian Gonzalez

All our pitchers are aggressive with the fastball. But they're not afraid to throw 10 curveballs in a row.

All our food has maggots. It's unsanitary. I told my wife to go on ahead while I checked on my brother. But she's afraid we'll get separated and I won't see her for five or six months.

A bunch of us got lost on a turn and ended up outside the stadium. I was afraid I was going to be the last one back in, but I turned around and there's Tony holding up his camera behind everybody.

It's just extremely dry. Unless we get some rain, I'm afraid there's going to be another long fire season here.

Vince Carter

It's exciting. It's a great feeling talking about it and not being afraid to say, 'Yeah, we have a good team, and we're going to be capable of competing. It's great to see everybody thinking that way. I think everybody's committed to this team because of the talent we have.

It seems we have lost that concept. We're all so busy now, too afraid to let people know when we need each other.