Frightened Quotes - Page 30

• Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

  Germaine Greer

  Cooking

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• There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

  Daniel Handler

  Teaching, Vegetables, Sea

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• It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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• It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Honest, Humiliated

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Men, Phones

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. ‘Don’t be ashamed,' Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again.

  Kristin Cashore

  Children, Sadness, Tears

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.

  Geneen Roth

  Fear, Knowing Who You Are, Drug

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Kings, Artist, Imagination

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• Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Time, War, History

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• Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Men, Brave, Solitude

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES (Illustrated): Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible”, p.156, e-artnow

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• People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.

  Tom Waits

  Art, People, Mail

  "Tom Waits - Eccentric in the Very Best Sense". Interview with Charles Champlin, articles.latimes.com. January 14, 1988.

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• I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Mother, Years, Giving

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• My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

  Mark Burnett

  Mean, Realizing, Failing

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• It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

  Edith Wharton

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.53, Bibliolis Books

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• I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Moving, Butterfly

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Safety, Warning, Mathematics

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

  Nora Ephron

  Husband, Women, Thinking

  "Nora Ephron’s Famous TNora Ephron’s Famous Talk At Wellesley’s Graduation". www.mindingthecampus.org. 1996.

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• I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Fear, Thinking, Should

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• Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life. I was beset on all sides by invisible worries. So, I shut myself in and slept. I slept until sleep exhausted me. Spring passed, summer ended, fall came, and then winter arrived. Then, it turned into another gentle spring.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

  Anne Holm

  Brave, Might, Faces

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• Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!

  Clarice Cliff

  Beautiful, Fun, Artist

  Pasadena Evening Post, 1931.

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• I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. I'm praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked. I'm praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.

  Bill Hybels

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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• Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

  Steven Erikson

  War, Fall, Self

  "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

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• In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Rocks, Ideas

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• Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Moments

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