Frightened Quotes

• Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Lightning, Furious

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Antony and Cleopatra In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.317, BookCaps Study Guides

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• And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

  Elton John

  Doctors, Frustrated, Littles

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. January 25, 2002.

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• Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Fear, Heart

  "Fictional character: Eva Perón". "Evita", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

  George S. Patton

  Intelligent, Men, Bravery

  "An Owner's Manual for Men: What You Need to Know Before You Venture Out There". Book by Joe Nickaloff, p.96, 2011.

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• Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

  Rumi

  Fear, Reading, Kissing

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• When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

  Michael Ironside

  Art, College, Would Be

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• I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, Cancer, Thinking

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

  Jules Renard

  Inspirational, Life, Moments

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• Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Children, Parent, Firsts

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• I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

  Kate Adie

  Children, Mountain, Literature

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• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  George Haven Putnam

  Government, Dungeons, Self Destruction

  George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• Better be killed than frightened to death.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32

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• I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Thinking, Bedtime

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• I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

  Nigella Lawson

  Hate, Needs, Literature

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

  Bella Abzug

  Men, Littles, Made

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• We're frightened of what makes us different.

  Anne Rice

  Different

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.260, Ballantine Books

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• As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

  Ezra Cornell

  Country, Religious, Party

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• Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Doctors, Sight, Blood

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• The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

  Thomas Cech

  Views, People, Excitement

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

  Bill Vaughan

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• I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Father, Space, House

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• I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

  Neil LaBute

  Movie, People, Would Be

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