Frightened Quotes - Page 31

• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Kings, Artist, Imagination

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• I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was the gender I'd been assigned. I felt there was something wrong with me, something sick and twisted inside me, something very very bad about me. And everything I read backed that up.

  Kate Bornstein

  Lonely, Kids, Sick

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.22, Routledge

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• We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.

  Zeena Schreck

  Ignorance, People, Ignorant

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• The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Risk, Suffering, Magic

  Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate (2010). “The Book of English Magic”, p.400, The Overlook Press

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• You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

  Lowell Ganz

  Grandpa, Sick, Interesting

  "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Courage, Women

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.79, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Fear

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin

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• People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

  Jackson Pollock

  People, Bored, Shells

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity

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• Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Names, People

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

  Han Suyin

  Solitude, Humans, Handle

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• Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Cat, Animal, Three

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Conan Doyle Weirdbook”, p.136, Lulu.com

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• Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

  Keith Johnstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Everyday, Numb

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• There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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• People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

  Phyllis McGinley

  People, Sick, Immature

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.

  Gary Zukav

  Dragons, Personality, Heal

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 20, 2016

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• We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

  Neil Postman

  Believe, Age, Middle

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat a big Dormouse all in a heap. Trembled the wee Elf, frightened and yet Fearing to fly away lest he get wet. To the next shelter-maybe a mile! Sudden the wee Elf smiled a wee smile. Tugged till the toadstool toppled in two. Holding it over him, gaily he flew. Soon he was safe home, dry as could be. Soon woke the Dormouse-"Good gracious me!" "Where is my toadstool?" loud he lamented. -And that's how umbrellas first were invented.

  Oliver Herford

  Rain, Home, Two

  Oliver Herford (1901). “Artful Antics”

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• Come all you mad and raging fearless friends of war and peace,
  Come all you sad self-righteous frightened friends down on your bended knees,
  All beings on this earth, you must not harm them;
  All weapons you hold deep within your heart, you must disarm them.
  Every man you meet's your son.
  Every woman is your daughter.
  Go find someeone who's thirsty,
  And give them water.

  Butch Hancock

  Music, Daughter, War

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• And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

  Nora Ephron

  Husband, Careers, Mind

  Nora Ephron (2014). “The Most of Nora Ephron”, p.82, Random House

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• Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both from themselves and others. They often become frightened whenever they feel anything intensely, be it anger, pain, fear, or even love and joy. They fear their emotions will consume them or make them crazy.

  Beverly Engel

  Pain, Crazy, Joy

  Beverly Engel (1990). “The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse”, Ivy Books

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• To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.

  Marie Lu

  Heart, Love Is, Thinking

  Marie Lu (2014). “The Young Elites”, p.139, Penguin

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• I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like villain in Batman, or a Hobbit, or whatever it is.

  Tom Hardy

  Stars, Eye, Responsibility

  "Tom Hardy Talks Following Heath Ledger’s Joker, Bane’s Costume, STAR TREK and More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.

  Alma Katsu

  Men, Behinds, Seeing

  Alma Katsu (2012). “The Reckoning: Book Two of the Taker Trilogy”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Healthy, Mind

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