Frightened Quotes - Page 3

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

  Bill Vaughan

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

  Jules Renard

  Inspirational, Life, Moments

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• Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Change, Happiness, Inspiring

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• It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

  George Orwell

  Children, People, Normal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dont be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Mistake, Stronger, Ifs

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• Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Wish, Philosopher

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.24, Bertrand Russell

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• People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Lying, People, Losing

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

  Bette Midler

  Luck, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

  Shirley Jackson

  People, Want, Helping

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