I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
Brigitte Bardot

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann Hesse

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
Matt Damon

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
Sandra Cisneros

I'm not afraid to die.
Vivien Leigh

Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.
Kim Alexis

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob Bronowski

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Billie Jean King

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
Edmond About

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.
Alex Lifeson

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
Jean Baudrillard

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
Sparky Anderson

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
Shirley MacLaine

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
Barry Bonds

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones