Best 548 quotes in «scared quotes» category

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

The monsters in my head are scared of love.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He's petrified.

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

There's that really scary moment when you premiere music that no one's heard. It's the best and the worst moment. You're so scared. If it goes down well, then it's the best ever, but before you do it you want to die.

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.

There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.

We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.

Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!

We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.

We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

We've worked together with Carine Roitfeld a lot; she's been a big supporter and helped me along with everything. Also, just the way she does her magazine - she's not afraid to do things differently or scared to put certain things in her magazine, a bit of controversy. She's a bit naughty. She likes sexy things.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay.

When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you've always been happy and that you'll always be happy. The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. Something, perhaps, to remember.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

Who doesn’t? I cry and smile every day. I grew up scared, because I was so skinny and had no boobs. It’s only now that I just think, Sod it! Everyone’s different. I’m contented and happy as I am.

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.

You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears.

You are so addicted and you have become so habituated that you cannot allow the cup to be empty even for a single moment. The moment you see emptiness anywhere you start filling it. You are so scared of emptiness, you are so afraid.: emptiness appears like death. You will fill it with anything, but you will fill it.