Frightening Quotes - Page 17

• It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

  Betty Friedan

  Voice, Answers, Realizing

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Giving, Sound

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• Yes, this life is passing swiftly; our days
  seem to fade quickly; and
  death appears frightening at times.
  Nevertheless, our spirit will continue
  to live and will one day be united with
  our resurrected body to receive immortal glory. I bear solemn witness
  that because of the merciful Christ,
  we will all live again and forever.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Forever, One Day, Body

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• I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

  Agatha Christie

  Ideas, Knows, No Idea

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  Ian Anderson

  Retirement, Dark, Getting Older

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• The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.

  Seth Godin

  Matter, Way, Steps

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• You know what's really frightening? You (Jon Stewart) actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true. You've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Power, Night, Presidential

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• A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

  Barbara Walters

  Life, Work, Home

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• You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this - It's not about not being scared - it's about being scared and doing it anyway - that's bravery.

  Ysabella Brave

  Military, Brave, Choices

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Everyday Bravery", www.youtube.com. March 25, 2007.

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• The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Liberty, Criminals

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• Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very frightening, and looking absolutely real.

  Paul Thek

  Art, Real, Glasses

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• At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

  Manning Marable

  Heart, Race, America

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black Liberation in Conservative America”, p.200, South End Press

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• Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It's a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the 'glue' that will hold you together - whether it's religion, family, friends, music, yoga, a hobby or a cancer support group. Even our pets can be amazing healers. Be patient and don't give up. Trust me when I say you will come out changed and stronger on the other end of this.

  Brenda Jones

  Giving Up, Cancer, Yoga

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• For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Pride, Accomplishment

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• America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Numbers, America

  Billy Graham (1995). “Billy Graham: The Inspirational Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear of death... Then something incomprehensible and frightening happened. ... He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. ... The next moment, after a final effort, the spirit wrenched itself free of the flesh.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  War, Eye, Hands

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• Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening.

  James Salter

  Adventure, White, Feelings

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• Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.

  Greg Koukl

  Atheist, Father, Cutting

  "Is Atheism a Crutch?". str.typepad.com. March 24, 2010.

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• You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.

  Lily Tomlin

  Thinking

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• Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

  Tamar Myers

  Men, Saws, Holding On

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• MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Echoes, Media, Voice

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• Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

  Erich Fromm

  Self, Ideas, Feelings

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

  Juliette Binoche

  Jobs, Waiting, Uncertain

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Sleep, Boredom

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

  James Buchan

  Oil, Addiction, Different

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