Frightened Quotes - Page 15

• I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Mean, Insecure

  7 Copy quote

• You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Eye, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.

  Michael Faraday

  Taken, Science, Expression

  52 Copy quote

• You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Differences, Broken

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moon, Path, Excited

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Suffering, Jelly

  4 Copy quote

• And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Strong Women, Soul, Good Woman

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Watches, Deceit

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.58, Macmillan

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs something to cheer him up... The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a banjo!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Baby, Cheer, Sorry

  8 Copy quote

• Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

  Kate Morton

  Mother, Children, Stories

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.

  Margo Lanagan

  Hurt, Heart, People

  4 Copy quote

• She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Believe, People, Worry

  18 Copy quote

• I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Tired, Want

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1014, Bantam

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Aren't you frightened?" Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. She looked away. "Yes," she finally said, "I'm frightened all the time." "Then why don't you act like it?" "I do. I just do it in private." "Because you don't trust me?" "No," she said, "because I know you're frightened, too."

  Nicholas Sparks

  Wise, Trust Me, Lord

  "A Walk To Remember". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1999.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moon, Thinking, Worry

  5 Copy quote

• Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Beautiful, Light, Hands

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Misguided Angel: Number 5 in series”, p.50, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

  Richard Wright

  Lonely, Self, White

  Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Doors, Common Sense, Waiting

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.119, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the table manners of others is rude. But to overthrow the accepted conventions of society, on the flimsy grounds that you have found them silly, inefficient and discomforting, is a dangerous step toward destroying civilization.

  Judith Martin

  Silly, Civilization, Rude

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

  Daniel Handler

  Animal, People, Enough

  4 Copy quote

• Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Voice, Expectations, May

  66 Copy quote

• People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Thinking, Expression

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pockets, Terrified

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

  John Marsden

  Thinking, Bored, Alive

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Fire

  "The Portable Steinbeck: 2".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source