Terrified Quotes - Page 20

• I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

  Edward Snowden

  Talking, Giving, Important

  www.wired.com.

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• I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Forever, Records, Bad Music

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• A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

  Amy Neftzger

  One Day, Library, Excited

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• I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

  Laverne Cox

  Hook, Bells, Stage

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• I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Acquiescence, Intensity, Passive

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4552, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us. Are you pursuing a shadow career?

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Careers, Risk

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• Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Grace And Mercy, Wrath

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.36

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• As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who had a fear of infecting others, who was terrified he would pass on his condition to his son. And it was a way of examining prejudice, unwarranted prejudice towards a group of people. And also, examining why people might become embittered when they're treated that unfairly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Son, People, Way

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• Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, People, Might

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• To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.

  Marie Lu

  Heart, Love Is, Thinking

  Marie Lu (2014). “The Young Elites”, p.139, Penguin

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• For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Forever, Records, May

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• Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

  Zachary Quinto

  Gay, Men, Culture

  "Zachary Quinto Addresses Homosexuality in New Interview, Blog Post" by Jane Kellogg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 16, 2011.

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• I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Heaven, Minutes, Gates

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• Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

  Josh Hartnett

  Real, Watches, Horror

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• An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Memorable, Acceptance

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• I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

  Andrea Arnold

  Cameras, Fronts, Comfortable

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• You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who love me usually end up dead. But you see, I’m not going to give you any choice. You belong to me now whether you like it or not.” “I don’t like it, not one bit!” “Try to escape,” he suggested coolly. “Go ahead. See what happens. Give me one excuse to take what I want from you, even if it is against your will. I want you that much. Too damned much.” He turned without warning and kissed her, flattening her back against the pine mast.

  Gaelen Foley

  People, Giving, Choices

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• I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

  Helen Mirren

  Lines

  Interview With John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• People are afraid of you, Arty. Girls are terrified of you. You’re a fifteen-year-old in a bespoke suit, and nobody died.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Years, People

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• The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, United States, Strongest

  Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.579, Courier Corporation

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• Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway.

  Taylor Swift

  Fearless, Fearful, Unafraid

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• I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pockets, Frightened

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• You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Inspiration, Worry, Empowering

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• I swear, Daimons or not, if you don’t behave, Z, I’m going to send you to Antarctica and leave you there to rot. (Acheron) Ooo. I’m terrified. Those killer penguins and hairy seals are really scary. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Scary, Killers, Penguins

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.99, Macmillan

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