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• Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams when you work hard and don't give up.

  Seungri

  Dream, Giving Up, Hard Work

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• What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Beautiful, Jesus, Moving

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.246, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.

  Gabriella Wilde

  Want, Standing Out, Young

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• You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had, and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to...my own life.

  Newt Gingrich

  Spring, Hate, Men

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• I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life.

  Newt Gingrich

  Hate, Men, Pieces

  "Newt's Quotes", www.pbs.org.

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• Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.

  Hideaki Anno

  Loneliness, Moving, Together

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• I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.

  David Beckham

  Men, Years, Two

  "Beckham keen to extend his reign in Spain". www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2005.

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• If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Should, Horrible, Seems

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• I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Thinking, People, Kind

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• All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Training, Newborn

  "Moynahan Feared Motherhood" by wenn.com, June 5, 2008.

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• Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Plato, Mean

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 04, 2016

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• One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.

  Francis Crick

  Country, Believe, Years

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• Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.

  Wayne Muller

  Running, Pain, Believe

  Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.

  Graham Linehan

  Reality, Energy, Movement

  "The TAM London 2010 live blog" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Campaigns, Revolution, Election

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• That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Real, Independent, Journey

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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• When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we’re the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we’re unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream—and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Writing, Reality

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

  Robin Williams

  Looks, Comedy, Metaphor

  "RD Interview: Robin Williams, in His Own Words". Interview with Andy Simmons, www.rd.com. 2006.

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• A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Zombie, Lame

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• Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.

  Werner Herzog

  Eye, Animal, Stupidity

  "Signs of Life". DVD Audio Commentary, 2005.

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• Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.

  Toni Collette

  Scary, Quiet, Sometimes

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• Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

  Gerry Spence

  Ideas, America, Long

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• The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.

  Mathew Tobriner

  Creativity, Flow, Fields

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• One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.

  Susan Collins

  Leadership, Reality, Data

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• This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

  Carson McCullers

  Writing, Doe, Tennessee

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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