Frightened Quotes - Page 14

• The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

  Ross Macdonald

  Rattlesnakes, Sensitivity, Delicate

  Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.233, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

  Alicia Vikander

  Thinking, Interviews, Film

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• Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.

  Tara Brach

  Dog, Pain, Heart

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• Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Long, Enemy, Battle

  Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Morning, Laughter, Eye

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• The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

  Richard Dawkins

  Important, Remember, Mathematics

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.75, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Self, Skins

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• With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Positive, Spring, Vision

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd be so frightened of getting hurt that there wouldn't be any other way. But no. every time I meet someone I dive in headfirst, showering them with love and attention, and hoping that this time they're going to be different.

  Jane Green

  Hurt, Giving, Cynical

  Jane Green (2003). “Mr Maybe”, p.136, Penguin UK

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• Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

  Larry Norman

  Lonely, Trying, Different

  Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.

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• I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Men, Doors

  Cornell Woolrich (1943). “I wouldn't be in your shoes”

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• It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to see what third entity is created! I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

  Bat for Lashes

  Beautiful, Historical Value, Feelings

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• Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

  Philip Roth

  Memories, Boys, Childhood

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• Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Sleep

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• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Stars, Pain

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• She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

  John Mason Brown

  Life, Education, Purpose

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• When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death

  J. P. Donleavy

  Money, Sex, Healthy

  The Ginger Man ch. 5 (1955)

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• May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Children, Thinking

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• Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

  Hafez

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.

  Michael Faraday

  Taken, Science, Expression

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• I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

  Richard Matheson

  Couple, Reading, People

  "ED GORMAN CALLING: We Talk to Richard Matheson". www.mysteryfile.com.

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• Customs, morals — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe — and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes — make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.

  Jubal

  Land, Differences, Personality

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• All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fall, Love You, I Fell In Love With You

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Choice”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Successful, Thinking, Ephemeral

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• I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Blood, Eggs, Yellow

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