Quotes About Insecurity

Small men curse what they cannot understand.

Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome. Particularly since he always found himself wondering if the japes and laughter were directed at him.

Fear makes even strong me do things they might never do otherwise, and my father was never strong. - Arianne

La brujería es la salsa que vierten los idiotas sobre el fracaso para ocultar el sabor de su incompetencia" -Tyrion Lannister

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now.

Tell us about the crisis of 1981. It started much earlier, around the time I spelled out my three-stage strategy. Here I was, extremely successful, but I made a point of denying my success. I worked like a dog. I felt that it would endanger my success if I abandoned my sense of insecurity. And what was my reward? More money, more responsibility, more work-and more pain-because I relied on pain, as a decision-making tool.

I recognize that I may be wrong. This makes me insecure. My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors. I do this on two levels. On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy.

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Generally, most cities across the US have become unsafe due to petty thieves, daytime attacks, and night attacks.

Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.

Fear can be known as the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

His toupee makes him look twenty years sillier.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.