Frightened Quotes - Page 7

• What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

  Michael Faraday

  Dog, Men, Average

  Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.542, IET

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• I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.

  Peter Steele

  Confused, Insecure, People

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• ... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Deep Down

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Believe, Home

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• Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

  Max Lerner

  Ignorance, Men, Civilization

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Goes On, Scared

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren't as easily frightened as everyone seems to think.

  Lauren Faust

  Girl, Real, Smart

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• I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Sex, Children, Real

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2014). “Under the Moons of Mars”, p.107, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Littles, Pistols, Silent

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1958). “Lolita”, Perigee Trade

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• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Character, People

  Adolf Hitler (1994). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

  George Orwell

  Writing, People, Novel

  "Essays".

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Girl, Children, Emotional

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• Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.

  Annie Dillard

  Grateful, Past, Light

  "An American Childhood". Book by Annie Dillard, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Children, Son, World

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• Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Heart, New Orleans, Cities

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.15, LSU Press

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• Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

  Rand Paul

  Giving Up, Years, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Mind, Peace Of Mind, Possession

  Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

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• It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

  Lois Lowry

  December

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

  James A. Baldwin

  Someone You Love, Horror, Chips

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• Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

  George S. Patton

  Army, Enemy, Remember

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.

  George Friedman

  Warrior, Decision, Faces

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Insecure, Love Is, Men

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