Frightened Quotes - Page 12

• I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hurt, Flying, Experts

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.42, Bantam

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• I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Hate, Flying, Want

  "X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Hugh Jackman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

  David Frum

  Party, Support, Republican

  "At National Review, a Threat to Its Reputation for Erudition" by Tim Arango, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2008.

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• I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

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• If you're frightened of leprechauns, the best thing to do is to get yourself a little leprechaun outfit and see how big they are. And then you'll go, 'Well I see. That's like bein' frightened of a hampster.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Littles

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• Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

  Ken Robinson

  Running, Business, Mistake

  "How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 03, 2014.

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• Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right. Being frightened when you're not sure you're all right is a big difference.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Reading, Differences

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mysterious Universe, Knowing, Uncertainty And Doubt

  "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who "did all that stuff to you" were just as frightened and scared as you are.

  Louise Hay

  Compassion, People, Childhood

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.21, Hay House, Inc

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• Bullies are just frightened people.

  Elizabeth Strout

  People, Bully

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• Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry.

  Kenneth Clark

  Photography, Mean, Artist

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Keys, Doors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Children, Home

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• Customs, morals — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe — and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes — make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.

  Jubal

  Land, Differences, Personality

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• Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Fall, Contracts

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• I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Terrible, Terror

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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• People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Play, People

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• Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

  Jo Nesbo

  Opposites, Evil, Void

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.114, Random House

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• I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me.

  Brian Posehn

  Kids, Stuff, Hardcore

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• And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

  Osamu Dazai

  Soul, Might, Rooms

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Men, Action

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

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• What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't stand it either, so they made a world of their own. Well, they have each other's company, and they are heroes, whereas I'm quite alone, and have none of the qualities essential to heroism - the spirit, the toughness, the dedication. I'm back where I was as a child, solitary, helpless, unwanted, frightened.

  Anna Kavan

  Children, Hero, Dedication

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Insecure, Jocks, Bigs

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• And I know you're frightened By my laughter But you're not afraid To hold my pain You see I'm never sure Just what you're after, Babe But it seems you only love me When it rains. How come you only love me when it rains?

  Harry Chapin

  Laughter, Pain, Rain

  Song: It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains, Album: Living Room Suite

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