Terrifying Quotes

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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and… — Ayelet Waldman
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like;… — Abel Hermant
I've never protected the president [in real life], but I have been a new dad, and I can tell you that being a new dad… — Channing Tatum
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a… — Joseph Sobran
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden.… — Georges Bataille
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity. — Anais Nin
It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to… — Bill Murray
You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay… — Mary Doria Russell
A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and… — Marvin J. Ashton
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation… — George Orwell
When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense,… — Unknown Author
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more… — Winston Smith
Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge.… — Alex Scarrow
There's nothing more terrifying then a teenage girl. — Chris Colfer
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing… — Robert De Niro
I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying… — Portia de Rossi
I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's… — Annette Bening
I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small… — Jim Gaffigan

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