Frightening Quotes - Page 23

• Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Soul, Today, Plastic

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

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• My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been forever left behind; that knowledge is indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive. The first thing he ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a warrior.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mean, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (1971). “A Separate Reality.Further Conversations with Don Juan”

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• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  Zola Jesus

  Song, Empowering, Benefits

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• There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.

  Nick Kroll

  Ideas, People, Waiting

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Psychics, Practice, Black

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• Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

  Carl Douglas

  Revenge, Kids, Fighting

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• Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.

  Edward Said

  Writing, Past, Order

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• Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

  Julian Green

  Society, Becoming, World

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• Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

  Sue Thoele

  Letting Go, Patterns, Paradox

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.122, Conari Press

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• To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming upset over a frightening dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Mistake, Ignorance

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• If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Believe, Goodness, Efficacy

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.

  Nick Nolte

  Success, Scary, Mind

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• As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Thinking, Aging

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• If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

  Paula Rego

  Facts, Becoming, Ends

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• The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.

  Lulu

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• "Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Silence, Lambs

  The Arrow Interview, www.joblo.com. April 15, 2001.

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• Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Frustration, Cities, Effort

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

  Alain Resnais

  Littles, Remember, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.

  Richard Carrier

  Ideas, People, Suffering

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• My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

  John Luther Adams

  Beautiful, Landscape, Strange

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• Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.110, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.

  Ed Ayres

  Real, Rights, Friendly

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• The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

  Lauren Bacall

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Past, Generosity

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Lecture given at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 30, 1997.

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• The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

  Max Lucado

  Men, Looks, Stories

  "Max Lucado: 2016 Election Has 'Sucked the Joy' Out of Americans" by Michael Gryboski, www.christianpost.com. October 18, 2016.

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