Terrifying Quotes

460 quotes by 389 authors

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying. — Lee J Cobb
I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying. — Matthew Macfadyen
It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror. — Vera Farmiga
I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying. — Elizabeth Taylor
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look… — Julie Andrews
Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me. — Josh Groban
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm… — Kathleen Turner
Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart… — Graham Nash
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this… — Gene Weingarten
We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral. — Denis Halliday
Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams… — Seungri
To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society. — Cecil Taylor
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying… — Clive Barnes
Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no… — Ennio Flaiano
I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with… — Pablo Neruda
The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead.… — Stephen Covey
It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those… — Ravi Zacharias
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar,… — Carl Sagan

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