Frightened Quotes - Page 10

• Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

  David Letterman

  Mother, New Year, New York

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.

  Georges Bataille

  Fear, Eye, People

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• I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fear, Boredom, Risk

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 96, 2006.

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• Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

  Isabel Allende

  Character, Grandmother, Care

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.

  Ben Kingsley

  Stars, Yellow, Actors

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• I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Seven, Senses

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part I, book III, chapter IX., 1605-1615.

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• It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

  Phillips Brooks

  Beautiful, God, Voice

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.115, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Mean, Fire, People

  "Witches in Queensland?". "The Religion Report" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. December 13, 2000.

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• She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out. A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye, Voice, Looks

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• Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.

  Teresa Giudice

  Attachment, Self, Hands

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• He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Wall, Feelings

  Song: Fire In The Sky

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• The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

  James Buchan

  Political, West, Financial

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• And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love You, Mean, Loving You

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• She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where they’d been killed. She had fans in heaven..... Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate.

  Alice Sebold

  Prayer, Cities, People

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• I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

  Rachael Taylor

  Thinking, People

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

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• I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

  Nick Bantock

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• Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

  Paul Klee

  Fear, Struggle, Want

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

  Susan Sontag

  Gun, Cameras, Murder

  "On Photography". Book by Susan Sontag, www.elle.com. 1977.

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• Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

  Jim Harrison

  Government, Years, People

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Legends of the Fall”, p.109, Atlantic Books

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• The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

  Michael Bassey

  Gossip, Stupidity, Criminals

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• You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. Given the history of
  society's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, this
  remained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightened
  some people so deeply.

  Stephen Singular

  Men, Ideas, People

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• A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

  John Milton

  Night, Reign, Chaos

  John Milton (1903*). “Poetical Works”

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• I was trying to make them face their fears. Youth spends so much energy trying to forget them. There's the fear of failure in examinations, fear of sex, fear of not getting a job, fear of unpopularity, fear of appearing naïve. Youth discovers many bunkholes in which to hide when frightened. They are mostly unhealthy, none of them bombproof.

  Muriel Lester

  Jobs, Sex, Fear

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• The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

  Terry Gilliam

  Insecure, People, Groups

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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