Frightened Quotes - Page 29

• I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.

  Miles Franklin

  Men, Earthquakes, Two

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• I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.

  Glenda Jackson

  Mean, Night, Actors

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• Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all our circumstances talk with us; but it is in Divine language, that worldliness misunderstands, that selfishness is frightened at, and that only the children of God hear rightly and happily.

  William Mountford

  God, Children, Night

  William Mountford (1874). “Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.503

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• Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Wall, Eye

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• Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Night, Light, Trying

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• The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.

  Marlo Morgan

  Brother, Pain, Earth

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.

  Robert Denning

  Proposal, Accepting

  The AD100 Architectural Digest, v. 57 #1, p. 48, January 2000.

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• A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation.

  Vivian Gornick

  Strong, People, Understanding

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• What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

  William H. Macy

  Self, Actors, Gigs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'd love to cook. It's something I've got into since I've grown older. I'm mates with Jamie Oliver and he's been a real inspiration. I've cooked for Jamie a few times - most people are too frightened to cook for him. Chefs are really easy to cook for. They're just pleased not to be the one who's cooking.

  Jason Flemyng

  Real, Inspiration, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Fans, Reason, Young

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened. I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them. Mine are not like that. Mine tend to go: 'Argh,' and look horrified. They shake and take a picture from a really long way away. I do feel I've got quite good, respectful ones though.

  Colin Farrell

  Home, Long, People

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

  Michael Moore

  Needs, Compass

  "All Things Considered" (NRP), November 2002.

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• If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

  Seth

  Reality, Thinking, Tragedy

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• The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fall, Government, Suffering

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.286, Open Road Media

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• Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Class, Waiting

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• A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

  Paul Johnson

  Fear, People, Would Be

  "Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s". Book by Paul Johnson, 1983.

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• Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

  Kenneth Clark

  Photography, Artist, Invention

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I was a bit frightened of the girls. I fancied them. Even though I was young, I found them attractive and rather frightening. I've always been attracted to frightening girls! I'm married to one!

  Colin Firth

  Girl, Memories, Thinking

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

  Damien Hirst

  School, Inspire, Horror

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Responsibility, Greatness

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.

  Carl Safina

  Trying, Doe, Albatross

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• I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dark, Brave, Rats

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in the wilderness over the heads of the Israelites; but not with so good excuse as that symbol had, for this fear has not been curative, I think, nor made into pleasant or graceful shape, but rather a horrid spectacle, to affright people. For that men can be frightened into piety has been one of the legacies of religion which barbarous ages have bequeathed us plentifully.

  James Vila Blake

  Men, Thinking, People

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• And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.

  Patrick Stewart

  Jobs, Couple, Believe

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