Terrified Quotes

• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

  Daina Chaviano

  Love, Kissing, First Kiss

  Daina Chaviano (2008). “The Island of Eternal Love”, p.172, Penguin

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• Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.

  Elisa Jimenez

  Moving, Brave, No Fear

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• We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ideas

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• I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Secret, Honest, Should

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• I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

  Florence Welch

  Joy, Feelings, Battle

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• I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni, my fictional heroine can use the special website and find support and comfort.

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Children, Book, Rose

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• Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

  Edmund Burke

  Enemy, Able, Kind

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Going To Work

  "Shia LaBeouf vows to have real sex in movie" by Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. August 20, 2012.

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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• I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

  Adam Levine

  Independent

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• The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

  Laura Linney

  Silence, Entertainment, Industry

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• I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

  Audre Lorde

  Fear, Women, Writing

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.

  John Mahoney

  Philadelphia, Years, Play

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• I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

  Bear Grylls

  Sweat, People, Sitting Down

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• The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

  David Brinkley

  Television, Way, News

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

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• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Voice, Directors

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• I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I'm terrified of any other cut of denim.

  Lauren Conrad

  Cutting, Jeans, Denim

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• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  Chris Evans

  America, Decision, Captains

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• The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

  Annette Funicello

  Divorce, Mere

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• I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Cancer, Believe, Son

  "Diane von Furstenberg: Unwrapped". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 14, 2009.

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• If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, Ignorant, Empires

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• The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

  Newt Gingrich

  Islam, Way, Serious

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• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Home, School

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