Terrified Quotes - Page 9

• The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Simple, Natural Instinct

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.420, Modern Library

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• If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mistake, Acknowledge, Reluctant

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

  Suzy Welch

  Funny, Power, People

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• People can smile even when terrified.

  Nisio Isin

  People

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• The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.

  Joanna Newsom

  Blue, Whales, Voice

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

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• The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Cute, People, Boredom

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• And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes over. A benevolent dictatorship is still a dictatorship. At some point people are going to realize that Google has everything on everyone. Most of all, they can see what questions you're asking, in real time. Quite literally, they can read your mind.

  Jacob Appelbaum

  Real, People, Google

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• When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, People, Giving

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• When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

  Jung Chang

  Children, Party, Parent

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• I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.

  Jimmy Page

  Country, Cities, Drunk

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• Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

  Zachary Quinto

  Gay, Men, Culture

  "Zachary Quinto Addresses Homosexuality in New Interview, Blog Post" by Jane Kellogg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 16, 2011.

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• For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Forever, Records, May

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• I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

  Miriam

  School, Quality, Voters

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• So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.

  William Lane Craig

  Children, Thinking, House

  "Why I refuse to debate with William Lane Craig" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2011.

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• He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world.

  Dave Cook

  Block, Men, Climbing

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• I am terrified of being bored.

  Marie Antoinette

  Bored, Being Bored

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• I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

  Michael Hutchence

  Ego, Honest, Muster

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.

  Gerda Lerner

  Thinking, People, Promise

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• Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

  Anne Frank

  Upset, Able, Hiding

  Anne Frank (2010). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.28, Anchor

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• Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? 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

  Book, Heart, Phones

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• The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

  Byron Katie

  Truth, Ego, Truth Hurts

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2011

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• If you can forgive yourself then you will no longer see the reflection of your own internal judgement in the faces of the people around you. And if you can do that then suddenly you’ll be in a whole different universe because the universe we all exist in is the one where we’re all so terrified of the judgement of our peers.

  Duncan Trussell

  Reflection, Different Universes, People

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• I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, People

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• Sometimes you need to be terrified to your bones, in order for you to find your way to safety. Pain somewhat has this ability to push you beyond your comfort zone so that you can come back even stronger. To me, obstacles are not a hindrance but as stepping stones to success.

  Rita Zahara

  Pain, Order, Safety

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