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• No worries. They don’t scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I’ll never forgive you. (Alix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wall, Worry, Forgiving

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo, ahhh, ooo. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Pants, Tone

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• She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Makeup, Sweaters, Red

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.52, Penguin

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• Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Night, Chin Up, Ends

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• Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone." "His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. "That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately.

  Tamora Pierce

  Majesty, Speed, Glare

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.439, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, People, Use

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• I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.

  Craig Kilborn

  Police, May, Want

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• I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.

  Demi Lovato

  Growing Up, Getting Older, Want

  "Demi Lovato, at 19, takes control of her own life". Interview with The Associated Press, www.dailyfreeman.com. October 1, 2011.

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• George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

  Adam Levine

  Dark

  "Voices for Charge". Rolling Stone, October 14, 2004.

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• Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

  Bruce Schneier

  Children, Government, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

  "Computer Crime Hype". www.schneier.com. December 16, 2005.

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• Come on,"he said, gesturing toward the exit. "let's take a walk." "Where?" "It doesn't matter. We just need you calmed down or you'll be in no shape to fight." "Yeah? Are you afraid of my possibly insane dark side coming out?" "No, I'm afraid of your normal Rose Hathaway side coming out, the one that isn't afraid to jump in without thinking when she believes something is right." I gave him a dry look. "Is there are a difference?" "Yes. The second one scares me.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Fighting, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.205, Penguin

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• A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

  Mark Twain

  Faith, Confidence, Religious

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• If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

  Andrew van der Bijl

  Vision, Awe, Seeing

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• Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Atheist, People, Religion

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• It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Dollars, Crap

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• Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cancer, Heart, Suicidal

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

  Andre Previn

  Educational, Good Work, Ifs

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• Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.

  Marianne Limpert

  Motivational, Athlete, Swimming

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• I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Elephants, Feet

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• I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

  Colin Powell

  Peace, War, Historical

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• I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.

  Ken Kesey

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  BBC documentary "The Beyond Within: The Rise and Fall of LSD", 1987.

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• Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.

  Daniel Pearce

  Letting Go, Fake People, Real

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• If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Hands, Matter

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Notes and Fragments”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

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• Do one thing everyday that scares you... Taking risks takes practice.

  John Shumate

  Monday, Morning, Practice

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• The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

  Tracey Emin

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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