Frightening Quotes - Page 16

• When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Writing, Tree, Towels

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

  Sydney Pollack

  Religious, Crazy, Views

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• The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, Children, Destiny

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

  Thom Yorke

  Mother, Artist, Wings

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.

  John Loengard

  Light, Want, Language

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• When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

  Philip J. Corso

  Culture, Ongoing, Aliens

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• Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Tools, Dull, Complicated

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• I think it's very important to keep being frightened - if you're not frightening yourself, you should take a break. You need to keep experimenting. You also need to take time - that's how you do good stuff - layering and depth of knowledge.

  Rebecca Miller

  Thinking, Important, Depth

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you're taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family's security. But the rewards outweigh those things.

  Joan Osborne

  Artist, Risk, Rewards

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• Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

  Kim Gordon

  Crazy, Mean, The End Of The Day

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder, and Randa didn't deserve it. And even though she wanted what the voice wanted, she didn't think she had the courage for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Thinking, Voice, Murder

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, California, Endurance

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.116, Penguin

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• If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

  Carl Jung

  Want, Might, Matter

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• It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Cameras, Way

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

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• Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Arena, Cameras

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• Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the mental work of releasing and forgiving, almost anything can be healed. The word incurable, which is so frightening to so many people, really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by 'outer' methods and that we must go within to effect the healing. The condition came from nothing and will go back to nothing.

  Louise Hay

  Healing, Mean, People

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• I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Moving, Numbers, Decision

  Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.182, Macmillan

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• Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

  Socrates

  Running, Truth, Ignorance

  Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Important, Looks

  "Autobiographical Notes" by James A. Baldwin (1952), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), archive.nytimes.com.

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• Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Ideas, People, Soul

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• Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Adventure, Fiction

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training in the Royal Marines taught me to be professional at all times, even in dangerous and frightening circumstances. But fear can be dispelled by knowledge and preparation. Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.

  Pete Goss

  Cancer, Adventure, Marine

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• Five Truths
  about
  Fear Truth
  1. The fear
  will never
  go away as
  long as I continue
  to grow. Truth 2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it. Truth 3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it. Truth 4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else. Truth 5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

  Susan Jeffers

  Feel Better, Pushing Through, Long

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• There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Feet, Black

  1973 Television interview, 2 1Nov. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

  Salman Rushdie

  Native American, Giving, Encounters

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