#afraid

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make. ↗

— Christian Bale

#always #any #anything #because #confuse

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#am #cannot #cow #harness #horse

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' ↗

— John Abbott

#afraid #answer #anything #ashamed #ask

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#also #best #best friend #everyone #failing

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. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#been #daughters #eve #fine #fine thing

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. ↗

— Maude Adams

#failure #petty #success

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#always #beautiful #been #being #being beautiful

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ↗

— Aeschylus

#afraid #i #learning #sail #ship

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#bomb #brave #build #enough #fact

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. ↗

— Alan Alda

#deliver #doing #even #greedy #hard