Frightened Quotes - Page 5

• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Clouds, Sky, Feet

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• We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

  Robert Hayden

  Struggle, Evil, Political

  Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

  Shirley Henderson

  People, Adults, World

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

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• I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

  Lena Headey

  Dark, Losing Someone, Brain

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• One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

  David Rockefeller

  Business, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

  Kim Cattrall

  Europe, Tv Shows, America

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• Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Struggle, Opportunity, Should Have

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• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  Barry Lopez

  Typewriters, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

  Barbra Streisand

  Fear, Want, Awful

  "Fearless People Greet Fear at the Door" by Jonathan Alpert, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?

  Beatrice Webb

  Fear, Class, People

  In Bertrand Russell 'Autobiography' (1967) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

  Joan Halifax

  Flower, Suffering, Ferns

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• The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Wall, People, World

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• She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

  Yiyun Li

  Strong, Falling In Love, People

  Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.17, Random House

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• God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

  Jean Anouilh

  Fear, Men, God Is There

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

  Lucy Freeman

  Arrogance, Snob

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• Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us to assume that the stressed child merely needs “comforting,” while the stressed adult needs “medicine”?

  Deane Juhan

  Children, Cat, Medicine

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• Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.

  John Keats

  Thank God, Dying, Easy

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.246

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• I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends ... But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that's a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel so much better to think about it. Sometimes it eases the terror, the sense that I am condemned eternally to this hell.

  Martha Manning

  Suicidal, Fate, Thinking

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• The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

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  Ram Dass

  Death, Learning, Ego

  Ram Dass (2011). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.95, Random House

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• We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.

  Byron Katie

  Fear, Mean, May

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2013

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• You know, it's an interesting think when you consider... The Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead.

  Ed Wood

  Fear, Thinking, People

  "Fictional character: Eros". "Plan 9 from Outer Space", www.imdb.com. July 22, 1959.

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• A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

  Mason Cooley

  Boys, Ambitious, Quiet

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• Zionism is a subject that all but a few are either too ignorant or too frightened to tackle and expose, but it must be made public and the web dismantled if global tyranny is to be avoided in the very near future.

  David Icke

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Made

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• We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

  Danny Boyle

  Drama, Feelings, Stories

  "Danny Boyle's, James Franco Interview, 127 Hours". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 27, 2018.

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• I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Real, Teenager

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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