Frightening Quotes

• We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

  May Sarton

  Inspirational, Dream, Real

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• Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

  Laurens van der Post

  Freedom, Fear, Doubt

  The Lost World of the Kalahari ch. 3 (1958)

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• I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

  "Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom". Book by Rick Wormeli, p. 9, 2006.

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• Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

  Stephen Bayley

  Design, Rich, Process

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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  Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

  Greta Garbo

  Happiness, Smile, Fake People

  Raymond Daum, Raymond W. Daum, Greta Garbo (1992). “Walking with Garbo: conversations and recollections”, Perennial

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• I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

  Brittany Murphy

  Taken, Thinking, Dear Lord

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Powerful, Scary, Responsible

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• Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Scary, Muggers

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

  David Brooks

  Hate, Scary, Want

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• My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

  Brooke Shields

  Pain, Father, Stress

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspiring, Fear, Scary

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Integrity, Weather, Climate

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• At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

  Julia Ormond

  People, Scary, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

  Fred F. Fielding

  Scary, President, Firsts

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• You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

  Timothy West

  Hunting, Scary, Steps

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• When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

  Victoria Jackson

  Scary, Goes On, Auditions

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• Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . .

  Betty Eadie

  Death, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Betty J. Eadie (1997). “The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beautiful, Scary, Path

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• My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

  Ronnie Wood

  Real, Self, Creative

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

  Rory Bremner

  Scary, Reassurance, Figures

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• It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

  Don Henley

  Breakup, Careers, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Scary, Watches

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• They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

  Ray Brown

  Believe, Mean, Scary

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