I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.”
“I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.”
“I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.”
“I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.”
“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”
“I'm afraid of death, obviously.”
“I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.”
Source: And Then There Were None
“I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.”
“I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.”
“I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.”
Source: God Shaped Hole: A Novel
“I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.”
“I'm afraid of flying.”
“I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.”
“I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.”
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
“I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.”
“I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!”
“I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.”
“I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.”
Source: Bitterblue
“I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.”
“I'm afraid of sharks - but only in a water situation.”
“I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.”
“I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.”
“I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.”
“I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light.”
“I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.”
“I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.”
“I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.”
“I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.”
“I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.”
“I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)”
Source: Rilla of Ingleside
“I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.”
“I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.”
“I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.”
“I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.”
“I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same”
“I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.”
“I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.”
“I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.”
“I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
“I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.”
“I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about my hand. Men tend to be very colorful when you're picking shrapnel out of them.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary”
“I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.”
“I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan”
“I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.”
Source: Dracula in Love
“I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.”
“I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.”
Source: Confessor