Frightened Quotes

• 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 fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Long, People

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

  Hafez

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Heart

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• The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.
  They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
  If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
  If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Memories, Angel

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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

  George MacDonald

  Death, Sunset, Literature

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• If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

  Paul Lynde

  Would Be, Half, Comedy

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• I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

  Fran Drescher

  Health, Care, Moments

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• And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Running, Player

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• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Courage, Time

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• If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

  George S. Patton

  Fear, War, Intelligent

  "An Owner's Manual for Men: What You Need to Know Before You Venture out There". Book by Joe Nickaloff (p. 96),

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• The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Needed

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• Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

  Jon Pertwee

  Matter, Being Afraid, Knows

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (10.4, "Planet of the Daleks"), 7 April - 12 May, 1973.

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• Wars are begun by frightened men.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Memorable, Men

  Tom Clancy (2003). “Red Rabbit”, p.47, Penguin

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• I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

  William Golding

  Mean, People, No Fear

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.84, Penguin

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• I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Eggs, Revolt, Jolly

  News summaries, December 31, 1963.

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• The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

  Michel Foucault

  Inspiration, Order, May

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.301, Vintage

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• After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Who I Am, People, Streets

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• Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

  Mason Cooley

  Sports, Murder Mysteries, Curiosity

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• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  Parminder Nagra

  Daughter, Mother, Country

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• No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

  George V

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Mother

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• When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Children, Polio Vaccine, People

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• I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, Needs, Want

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• I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

  Winona Ryder

  Teenager, School, Long

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• I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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