1,831 Quotes About Afraid

  • Author James Wolfensohn
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    What is happening outside is that people are scared -- they are afraid they may lose their jobs, ... These are legitimate fears, but the trend toward globalization is irreversible.

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  • Author James Wolfensohn
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    If you don't pay the civil servants, who support 900,000 people, I'm afraid the frustration would reach a level where you couldn't contain it.

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  • Author James Womack
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    There's a whirlpool developing with a drain down at the bottom, and no one is sure where it goes. It just seems to be swirling faster and faster, and everyone touching this thing is afraid they're going to be sucked in.

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  • Author Jay Wong
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    Productivity is the issue. If you have people that are sick or afraid to leave their house, I don't know how you can get around that. Semiconductor manufacturing plants are in China and it's not as if there are many back up plants around the world.

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  • Author Jay Wright
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    You could see him wearing down so we shut him down for a while in terms of playing. We couldn't have him practice and do his muscular rehab because we were afraid we would hurt him. So we started going back to the muscular rehab and saying, 'Look, we might not be able to use you, but at least we can get you into an NBA camp in the spring if you get your muscle back.' And we saw it start to come back. He still does that, he still works on all the strength training. He even did it out there and I think we're seeing it come back.

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  • Author Joe Wilcox
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    It's the psychological barrier. There are people who might be interested in a Mac who wouldn't have bought one because they're afraid they might need Windows.

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  • Author John Wallach
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    I remember in our first or second year, we had an Israeli who was walking outside the bunk at 2 o'clock in the morning. We said, 'Why aren't you sleeping?' He said, 'I can't fall asleep because I am afraid the Palestinian kid in my bunk is gonna knife me.

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  • Author John Whisenant
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    I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and we'd get beat that way. (In) hindsight, it couldn't be any worse than what happened to us.

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