Frightened Quotes - Page 9

• I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Ill

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

  Jane Campion

  Home, Trying, Directors

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 117, 2009.

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• I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

  Edward Norton

  People, Feelings, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

  Yoko Ono

  Gun, Speaks Out, People

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Swim, Cautious

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Order, Effort

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• If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

  Helen McCrory

  Unhappy, Bloody, Exhausting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

  Helen McCrory

  Thinking, Change Is Good, Teach

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

  Robert Winston

  Disappointment, Mirrors, Self

  "What I See in the Mirror: Robert Winston". www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

  Amy Winehouse

  Vulnerable, Appearing

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• Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Moving, Reality, Mind

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.67, Vintage

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• I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, School, Sunday

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  "I'm a horrible bully" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.

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• For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

  Matt Taibbi

  Successful, Political, Watches

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• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  Eliot Spitzer

  President, World, Calm

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• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  Salman Rushdie

  Self, People, Worried

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• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Looks, Mystery, Life Is

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

  Carol Vorderman

  Mirrors, Ideas, Looks

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• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dungeons, Have Faith, Might

  Address at Cooper Institute, New York, N.Y., 27 Feb. 1860

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• All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Heart, Mouths, Flesh

  Song: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

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• I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

  Horace

  Fear, Footprint, Dens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Epistles, I. 1. 74, 1922.

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• There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

  Warren Ellis

  Ideas, Long, People

  "Transmetropolitan. Back on the Street (issues #1–3)". Comic Book by Warren Ellis,

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• In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Government

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Spring, Farewell

  John James Audubon (1835). “Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.”, p.165

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