Terrified Quotes - Page 16

• I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mind, Negative, States

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• A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

  Sally Schneider

  Real, Book, Home

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• The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

  Gloria Steinem

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

  Robin Morgan

  Believe, Gay, Bisexual

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Inspire, Goes On

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.

  Lauren Bacall

  Actors

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

  Shana Alexander

  Real, Doctors, America

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich.

  Shelley Long

  Long, Sandwiches, Remember

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

  Elizabeth I

  Able, Affection, Fear Of Death

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• Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

  Storm Jameson

  Art, Civilization, Sensitive

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• I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

  Faye Dunaway

  Sometimes, Vulnerable, Desperate

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• There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

  Anna Katharine Green

  Children, Secret, Suffering

  Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE CASES OF VIOLET STRANGE - Complete Mystery Collection: Whodunit Classics: The Golden Slipper, The Second Bullet, An Intangible Clue, The Grotto Spectre, The Dreaming Lady, The House of Clocks, Missing: Page Thirteen Violet's Own…”, p.197, e-artnow

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• ... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

  Frida Kahlo

  Skeletons, Faces, Will To Live

  Frida Kahlo (1978). “Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago”

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• It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.

  Gardiner Spring

  Evil, Offensive, Sin

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.96

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• St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.

  Olivier Clement

  Fall, Animal, Two

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• Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.

  Cassidy Erin Gifford

  Together, Different, Way

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.

  Nancy Mairs

  Communication, Practice, Listening

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.

  Anna Kavan

  Fall, Boys, Men

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• I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

  Lesley Ann Warren

  Girl, Country, New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Jobs, Growing Up, Debt

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• Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

  Charlie Cox

  Honesty, Real, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

  Harper Lee

  Heart, Empty Rooms, Darkness

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• We know about bad guys, what they do, and often, who they are. The politicians have chosen to send us into battle, and that's our trade. We do what's necessary. And in my view, once those politicians have elected to send us out to do what 99.9 percent of the country would be terrified to undertake, they should get the hell out of the way and stay there.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Country, Views, Guy

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• Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

  John Green

  Parent, Matter, Patient

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