Frightened Quotes - Page 2

• I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

  Ethel Waters

  Fog, Used, Treatment

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• I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

  Tennessee Williams

  Strong, Character, Hysteria

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

  Hortense Odlum

  Husband, Reality, Wife

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• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

  Antonin Artaud

  Depression, Ideas, Delirium Tremens

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Bullying, Stupid, Inspiration

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

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• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Freedom, Philosophical

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

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• If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

  Colin Baker

  Turns, Ifs, Typecasting

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• Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

  Thomas Fuller

  Men, Differences, Sin

  Thomas Fuller (1812). “The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience”, p.31

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• Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Hero, Good Luck, Coward

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• God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

  Elizabeth I

  Bravery, Scary, Soldier

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• The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

  Judi Dench

  Essentials, Goes On

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• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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• I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

  Haley Joel Osment

  People, Spiders, Height

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• I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Kids, Thinking, Problem

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• If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Careers, Balance, Film

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• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  Damien Hirst

  People, Influence

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• I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

  John Newcombe

  Stay Calm, Trying, Littles

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• Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

  Rumi

  Fear, Reading, Kissing

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• All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

  George S. Patton

  Intelligent, Men, Bravery

  "An Owner's Manual for Men: What You Need to Know Before You Venture Out There". Book by Joe Nickaloff, p.96, 2011.

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• Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Lightning, Furious

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Antony and Cleopatra In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.317, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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• We're frightened of what makes us different.

  Anne Rice

  Different

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.260, Ballantine Books

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• I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, Cancer, Thinking

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