Frightened Quotes - Page 15

• Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Alarms, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.439, Penguin

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• If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.

  Thucydides

  Giving, Demand, Way

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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’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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• Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Kings, Energy, Assuming

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• I am not afraid of anybody.   This is a tough game.   You can't be intimidated.   You can't be frightened.   And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

  Maxine Waters

  Party, Games, Tea

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• When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Children, Home

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• I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Want, Nervous, One Love

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

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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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• All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

  Greg Bear

  Nice, Sheep, America

  Greg Bear (2003). “Darwin's Children”, p.125, Del Rey

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• The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.

  Tahir Shah

  Embrace, Publishing, Models

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• Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

  Neal Boortz

  Believe, People, Political

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• In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the movies a machine for causing emotions in the audience. Bresson (and Ozu) take a different approach. They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Laughing, Empathy

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.37, Crown Archetype

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• 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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• Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.

  Helene Cixous

  Solitude, Vastness, Void

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• I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hurt, Flying, Experts

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.42, Bantam

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