Frightened Quotes - Page 19

• Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.

  John Dewey

  Eye, Light, Influence

  John Dewey (0101). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.25, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Feet, Long

  Oscar Wilde, “The Harlot's House”

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• Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Knowing, Would Be, Knows

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.493, Anchor

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• I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Angel, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Aug 23, 2015

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• they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

  Charles Bukowski

  Deep Thought, Self Control, Important

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• but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dies, Will To Live

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.372, e-artnow

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• Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Animal, Somewhere Else

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

  Terry Brooks

  Purpose, Matter, Ifs

  "The Elf Queen Of Shannara". Book by Terry Brooks, March 1992.

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• I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Girl, Book, Healing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Artist, Drawing, Taste

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• We are technologically ahead of Russia and China. We can develop a nuclear shield for the United States, for Poland, and for the Czech Republic. Russia is deadly frightened of that. They have been trying to get us to give that up for 20 years since [Ronald] Reagan.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Czech Republic, Russia, Years

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". Interview with Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• I did not know that [ the Chancellor Angela Merkel is a bit frightened of dogs]. I wanted to make her happy. When I learned that she does not like dogs, I apologized, of course.

  Vladimir Putin

  Dog, Doe, Wanted

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Two, Heaven

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.100, Penguin

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• I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wicked Person, Looks, Mets

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.26, Xist Publishing

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• At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

  Peter Ustinov

  Death, Age, Birth

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• There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

  Israel Horovitz

  Real, Self, Punishment

  Israel Horovitz (1968). “The Indian Wants the Bronx”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

  George C. Scott

  Bottles, Done, Shooting

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• If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Enemy, Suffering

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.36

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• For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, People, Political

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.1157, Best Books on

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• I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

  Jackson Pollock

  Death, Sleep, Thinking

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• One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

  Robert McNamara

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep.

  Steve Bruce

  Thinking, Littles, Brooms

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• After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

  Paul Simon

  Years, Trying, Littles

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• I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Imbalance, Study, Absence

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• I live in a box of paints
  I'm frightened by the devil
  And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

  Joni Mitchell

  Devil, Paint, Boxes

  Song: A Case of You

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