Frightening Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Being on my own was liberation, it was liberty, it was freedom, it was responsibility! It was the greatest thing in the world, getting old enough to be on my own. And today we have to deal with the fact that being on your own is so frightening and so scary and makes you feel so vulnerable. I wouldn't be where I am today if I had that attitude, if I had been afraid to be on my own.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Attitude, Responsibility, Scary

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anything. It was the only immediate change in behavior I've ever undergone. I told the most frightening truths, and I was free.

  Melissa Febos

  Secret, Heroin, Behavior

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.

  Catherine Mayer

  Media, Race, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I just wish there was more media that was trailblazing and independent. And, this to me is a big danger right now in this set up is you've got these corporations, like the New York Times, and Amazon now with the Washington Post, and Time-Warner, and all of them seem to be the same! This is what's frightening!

  Matt Drudge

  New York, Independent, Media

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• When the musician starts improvising, he never can go back to what he did last Sunday. That's what's frightening to a lot of people who can't let themselves go. But it's also very invigorating and very releasing because it opens you up to be yourself.

  Cecil Williams

  Being Yourself, Sunday, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

  Terence McKenna

  Fall, People, Matter

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• I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Boys, Years, Patches

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• We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Mean, Doubt

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.

  Cary Fukunaga

  New York, Skills, Ideas

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

  Dylan McDermott

  Baby, Ideas, Devil

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Scary, Dramatic, Psychological

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.

  Tori Amos

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Demon

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• I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.

  Harpo Marx

  Depressing, Stars, Blow

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

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• The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Men, Cities

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• At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

  Bette Davis

  Doors, Clothes, Black

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• Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say. 
  (on playing for Liverpool again)

  Robbie Fowler

  England, Honest, Liverpool

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• The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.

  Lance Henriksen

  Dream, Baby, Scared

  Source: collider.com

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• Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.

  Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

  Waiting, Horror, Pending

  Source: collider.com

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