Frightened Quotes
604 Frightened quotes by 512 unique authors
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Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out…
— Sarah McLachlan
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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
— Isabel Allende
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If…
— Richard Wright
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Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late…
— Jim Harrison
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I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.
— Nick Bantock
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She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them…
— Markus Zusak
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There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under,…
— Warren Ellis
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And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing…
— Georges Bataille
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She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed…
— Alice Sebold
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You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced…
— Lois Lowry
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People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.
— David Sedaris
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The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought…
— Eva Ibbotson
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The only difference now, for what it's worth, is that I know that these things don't matter. I know that I don't have to know…
— Kevin Brooks
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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives…
— Louise Erdrich
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
— Bertrand Russell
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When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We…
— June Jordan
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It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want…
— Christopher Paolini
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A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
— Raymond E. Feist
Who Wrote These Frightened Quotes
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