When asked by his new wife's discomfited parents, "Why didn't you tell us you were a Jew?", Hecht responded
Books
As quoted in a eulogy for Darrow by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1938)
2010s, 2016, October, Second presidential debate (October 9, 2016)
“Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 46
“I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.”
At the annual Apple shareholder meeting (22 April 1998)
1990s
“But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust.”
To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train
Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 421
As quoted in "Change of Pace"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1963</big>
“I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.”
