Frightened Quotes - Page 11

• A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Men, Old Man

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.

  Francis of Assisi

  Spiritual, Sublime, Dear God

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• A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

  Myles Munroe

  Army, People, Leader

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• What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.

  Osamu Dazai

  Powerful, Sea, Water

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Hair, Kind, Stage

  "Rickie Lee Jones: 'I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Appreciation, Night, Sea

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1006, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.peakprosperity.com

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• I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

  Alicia Vikander

  Thinking, Interviews, Film

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• I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Successful, Thinking, Ephemeral

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• When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Mean, Humor

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• I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• There is a sense of oneness that from time to time I'm aware of in my life. Certainly not all the time, and there are times when I get frightened and when I get upset. But at the best of times, it's a personal oneness.

  Richard Bach

  Oneness, Upset

  An Interview with Richard Bach by Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Focus, Fans

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• I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.

  Agnes Varda

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Book, Media

  Source: portside.org

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• Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.

  Helene Cixous

  Solitude, Vastness, Void

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• You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

  Woody Allen

  Lonely, Children, Pain

  "Woody Allen: 'The whole thing is tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.

  Tara Brach

  Dog, Pain, Heart

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• The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

  Ross Macdonald

  Rattlesnakes, Sensitivity, Delicate

  Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.233, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the movies a machine for causing emotions in the audience. Bresson (and Ozu) take a different approach. They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Laughing, Empathy

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.37, Crown Archetype

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• Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

  Neal Boortz

  Believe, People, Political

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• All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

  Greg Bear

  Nice, Sheep, America

  Greg Bear (2003). “Darwin's Children”, p.125, Del Rey

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• I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

  Kim Richards

  Night, Done, Faults

  "Kim Richards In Her Interview With Dr. Phil About Her Recent Arrest: ‘Is This An Intervention’?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2015.

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• I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd be so frightened of getting hurt that there wouldn't be any other way. But no. every time I meet someone I dive in headfirst, showering them with love and attention, and hoping that this time they're going to be different.

  Jane Green

  Hurt, Giving, Cynical

  Jane Green (2003). “Mr Maybe”, p.136, Penguin UK

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• I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Want, Nervous, One Love

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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