Frightened Quotes
604 quotes by 521 authors
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to…
— Antonin Artaud
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
— Manolo Blahnik
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass…
— James Bovard
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
— John Cage
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Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's…
— Jane Campion
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
— Sherman Alexie
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I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Wars are begun by frightened men.
— Tom Clancy
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering…
— Charlotte Gray
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing…
— Norman Angell
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As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration…
— Gaylord Nelson
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At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.
— Peter Ustinov
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift…
— Jim Cymbala
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
— Teresa of Avila
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
— Seneca the Elder
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made…
— Phyllis McGinley
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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering…
— Winston Churchill
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Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of it." An alcoholic's…
— Seth Roberts
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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