Frightening Quotes - Page 25

• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Past, Generosity

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Lecture given at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 30, 1997.

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• The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.

  Benedict Groeschel

  Prayer, Simple, Voice

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• The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

  Mark Galli

  Doe, News, Belief

  Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.122, Baker Books

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• Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Reality, Psychosis, Ideas

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• "I'm at your house?" Kody asked."You don't have to sound so offended. I do have people clean it, you know?""Sorry." She sighed wearily. "You have no idea how confusing it is to wake up in a strange place with no idea how you got there."Caleb laughed. "Sure I do. Happens to me frequently."She rolled her eyes at his frightening lifestyle. "Yes, but I woke up in this bed alone."

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Eye, Strange Places

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.215, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

  John Oliver

  Done, Shortcuts, Comedy

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• From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

  Rachel Cohn

  Distance, Eye, Soul

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• I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, School, Challenges

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.

  Tori Amos

  Beautiful, Beach, Wine

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• The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

  Alexander Herzen

  Night, Order, Long

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• It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers, the despised or frightening or unintelligible other, we will see more and more of the holy, since, without exception, all people are one body: God's.

  Sarah Miles

  Pain, Loving Life, People

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• Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

  Alessandro Nivola

  Insecurity, Ups & Downs, Knows

  "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.

  Peter Carey

  Stars, Loneliness, Space

  FaceBook post by Peter Carey from May 23, 2013

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• I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

  Ted Simon

  Firsts, Way, Easy

  Ted Simon (2007). “Jupiter's Travels”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Country, Song

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• Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Darkness, Great Day, Together

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• We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.

  Richard Gregory

  Believe, Belief, Implications

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• If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Knowing, Our World

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• It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Artist, Turns

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• I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Rambo, Way

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• There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

  David Bohm

  Block, Differences, People

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• Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself

  Richard Hammond

  Reality, Mars

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• In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrarty, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.

  Anna C Salter

  Children, Three, Done

  Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

  John Wilkins

  Daughter, Gone Away, Feelings

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• Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, War, Dark

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5983, Delphi Classics

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