Terrifies Quotes
62 Terrifies quotes by 56 unique authors
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
— Roger Caras
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine.…
— Sheryl Crow
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No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is…
— Nicholas Brendon
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Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
— Susannah York
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I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
— Stephen Rea
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
— Samuel Johnson
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I close my eyes and it's so real and all at once I know just what I feel - And baby it's the kind of…
— Amanda Marshall
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I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
— Doug Stanhope
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I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and…
— Ingeborg Bachmann
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I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
— Sergio Leone
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By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.
— Guru Arjan
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get…
— Mackenzie Crook
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Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.
— Michael O'Donoghue
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But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre;…
— Rafe Esquith
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It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
— Samuel Johnson
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The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give…
— Peter Mullan
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Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps…
— Chris Hedges
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
— John Henry Newman
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I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a…
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its…
— Wallace Stevens
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I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.
— Sara Paxton
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If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues you, it's probably…
— Derek Sivers
Who Wrote These Terrifies Quotes
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