Quotes About Insecurity

The further removed we are from the land, the greater our insecurity.

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest —and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

No. I don't see," said Patrice flatly. But she did see. Jack would have tampered with her slightly, just enough so that when somebody else came along she'd have that shame, then more shame, until she got lost in shame and wasn't herself.

Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.

Why couldn't he bear down and concentrate? Because he was scared, that's why.

For a while in my life I'd lived with the certainty that I would be held in love, and now I was sleeping in a parking lot.

Why am I a loser? She sat very still. Because it pleases my father.

Trust in frightened people takes the place of love.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

The smart, ambitious woman he'd fallen in love with had slipped under the weight of his dark moods. She didn't like who she was becoming—quick to please him just to stop his anger, less likely to listen to herself than to him.

She's so anxious about being loved, she ends up driving people away.

Girls without mothers either tried too hard or not hard enough; as they got older, they sometimes wore extra makeup, as if it could mask the fact they didn't know what to do, how to act.

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

Fear is the original sin," suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.

Gli uomini hanno in sé un superfluo, che di continuo inutilmente li tormenta, non facendoli paghi di nessuna condizione e sempre lasciandoli incerti del loro destino.

There is one point, however, on which I wish you would give me a little enlightenment, and that is, how you can rest quietly when you reflect that there is someone who is doing his utmost to persuade others that you are as he sees you, endeavoring firmly to establish you in the estimation of others in accordance with his judgment of you, and to prevent others from seeing and judging you in any other manner?

If any signs were obvious, I think I must have buried them. Because when you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

Some nights looking at him scares me so bad I can hardly move and I start doing a prayer for protection. But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.

L'insulto é l'arma del debole.

It's every woman's nightmare. Waking up in a sexy man's bed only to find he doesn't want you? Definitely a nightmare.