#afraid

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough. ↗

— Shirley Bassey

#because #enough #fragile #i #i think

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#became #fame #i #incremental #thing

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#awake #beating #cover #each #fall

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one! ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#back #bikini #get #had #i

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#although #become #bit #cliche #eating

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#kings #save #tyrants #weeps #why

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#afraid #arabs #around #blood #consumes

This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience. ↗

— James Denton

#afraid #audience #confident #find #four

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ↗

— Voltaire

#audience #comedian #god #laugh #playing

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#age #ask #changed #dad #disappointed