#afraid

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. ↗

— Willa Cather

#always #become #bottomless #drop #even

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#because #contains #explore #fear #fears

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through. ↗

— America Ferrera

#am #because #been #before #carry

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#am #because #being #clouds #even

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#anyone #bit #both #either #fool

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

#ghost #heard #i #never #who

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#about #afraid #amazing #america #american

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. ↗

— Marilyn French

#explore #fear #fears #house #our

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#america #based #come #experience #fascism

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#being #being the best #best #born #drive