Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I saw black and white not afraid to touch each other, to hug each other, I saw God,

We need to finish this parking lot, so we can start landscaping. We feel the parking lot also will enhance the neighborhood. We have a young woman who wants to have her wedding here, but she is afraid to get her shoes in the dirt and sand.

We need to talk to our parents about the tough end-of-life issues. Our loved ones probably want to talk about these things but are afraid of upsetting you.

Stevie Wonder

I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.

Michael W. Smith

I wasn't afraid of the ball. I have taken a couple (shots), you just have to get up and do it again. You have to be fearless out there.

I wasn't afraid of losing. I was afraid of getting blown out. We played a great basketball team.

I wasn't afraid at all. Growing up on a ranch, you're never afraid.

I would not be afraid if this facility were located in my back yard.

John Tesh

I worry a lot about what people think. I worry people think I'm not helping them enough, that they don't like my music, that I'm playing a song too fast or talking too fast. I worry my wife isn't happy with our relationship... I'm afraid somebody's going to take my career away from me. That it's going to go away, or I'm going to get fired.

Sasha Cohen

My big weaknesses (in the past) have been a lack of preparation, a lack of knowledge and perhaps not enough confidence and afraid of mistakes. I need to stop trying to be perfect and just worry about becoming better.

Mike Thibault

My biggest relief was when I found out it wasn't a torn ligament. Not that the other injury is better, but a ligament injury is a long injury. I was a little bit afraid that we were in that realm.

My biggest concern with the younger girls was that I was afraid the older swimmers would be jealous, ... That's not the case at all. There is no jealousy and everyone supports each other. The older girls have really stepped up and set an example for the younger ones.

Bo Derek

My character is an agoraphobic. She is afraid to leave her home or wherever her safe place is and in this case it's her home with her husband.

Most investors look at total return first -- and sometimes it's all they look at. We think that consistent return really focuses in on risk. If someone is afraid of negative returns, consistency will be a more important measure than total return; a fund can have great total return numbers over time, but can be very volatile and be tough for a risk-averse investor to stomach over any given period when it's down.

Reed Hastings

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

Amity Gaige

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.

When the boys were finally released, they were swollen, hurting from the beatings, afraid of more and covered with manure.

Mike Farrell

When the ball goes up in the air, (Hazleton's) going to come down with it. He reminds me a lot of Michael Irvin in the fact that he's got deceptive speed, he's a guy that's not afraid to go over the middle and it takes more than one person to tackle him.

We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks.

Derek Jeter

You have to enjoy that situation. You can't be afraid of failing. You have confidence if you've had success in the past. I've done it before, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be successful again.

Jay Novacek

You just get a sense that he's in charge when he's out there. He's not afraid to go after people, and he trusts that his defense will do a good job behind him.

Nikolay Davydenko

We have a good chance of beating France because Marat is here. I think the French are afraid of him, just by his very being here even if he does not play. They have all been beaten by him.

Dave Stephens

We've lost some of our soldiers, and I think people here are fed up with the war. It's a war I'm afraid we can't win.

We've lost all of our workers. They're afraid to come in now, and they don't want to work. I still think we can finish the process, probably with each of the leading candidates looking at each ballot and making a decision we can all live with.

With the domestic economy getting back onto a normal footing, individuals are becoming less afraid of risk.

We're really not reaching out to a percentage of the population that is afraid to talk to the authorities. We want to make another avenue available so people feel less threatened if they're feeling threatened with authorities. Hopefully, someone will find it in their heart to step up and do the right thing and give us the opportunity to find our daughter and get her back to us.

We hope that we have the same amount of people, but we know a lot of people are afraid after what happened. But we will keep pushing.

Mark Johnson

Whether you look at it from the fair chase issue and say it's not fair to be able to take a farmed animal and kill it - we don't call it hunting - whether you disapprove of that or are afraid for the deer population as a whole because of disease or are just concerned about the integrity of our hunting heritage, people better go talk to their legislators.

We're afraid Jacksonville will be known as an environmental catastrophe and people will avoid it.

We're afraid if we do something unique here, we're going to put undue burden on our restaurants.

We really, really wanted this. We were afraid to say how much we wanted this.

We really love playing this music and showing it to people. We're not afraid to show people our stuff. That's what it's about. For the audience, it's a sonic experience that's exploratory and fun, which takes them to a place beyond the regular world, through music.

Pete MacArthur

We don't get afraid of BC. We don't care that it's BC. It's just another team. We know that they have the same fears playing against us as we would against them. It's just another game.