Afraid in sentence

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But I'm afraid it's not enough.

I'm really afraid, because I think the kinds of changes we can reasonably expect from individuals are going to be clearly not enough.

So, Brazil's ethanol miracle, I'm really afraid, is not enough.

In fact, I'm afraid all of the best policies we have are not going to be enough.

But I'm really afraid we need much, much more.

And I am really afraid that it's absolutely not enough.

Well I'm afraid not.

And trust me, these were people that were not afraid of setting a good deadline.

Yet I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

And he was actually afraid to meet the young children who read his books for fear that they were expecting him this kind of jolly Santa Claus-like figure and would be disappointed with his more reserved persona.

But I'm afraid I'll go missing in her life just like my father did in mine."

You're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it, you'll feel like you're an idiot, so then you make excuses about why you're not going to look for your passion.

You must look for alternatives so that you find your destiny, or are you afraid of the word "destiny"?

I had a dream too, once, kid, but I was afraid to pursue it."

You're afraid to look ridiculous.

You're afraid to try.

You're afraid you may fail.

But you're afraid.

Because very few people here are afraid to fail.

You see, there was a time when you weren't afraid of failure, when you were a great artist or a great dancer and you could sing, you were good at math, you could build things, you were an astronaut, an adventurer, Jacques Cousteau, you could jump higher, run faster, kick harder than anyone.

In that moment and still today when I doubt, when I feel afraid, when I need to reconnect with that feeling, I remember his words, they were so powerful.

It's a lobster made of playdough that's afraid of the dark.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance.

There are words that we're truly afraid of.

So I've been looking at this fear of judgment that we have, that you don't do things, you're afraid you're going to be judged; if you don't say the right creative thing, you're going to be judged.

Your fury is not something to be afraid of.

Because he was afraid I was walking into a trap.

During 41 years of teaching biology at Harvard, I watched sadly as bright students turned away from the possibility of a scientific career or even from taking non-required courses in science because they were afraid of failure.

I study the future of crime and terrorism, and frankly, I'm afraid.

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