Quotes about Frightened

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. Votes: 4

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me. Votes: 4

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Votes: 4

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. Votes: 4

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Votes: 4

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. Votes: 4

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. Votes: 4

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. Votes: 4

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Votes: 4

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. Votes: 4

Frightened by my feelings I only wanna be a relief. Votes: 3

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night. Votes: 3

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. Votes: 3

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go? Votes: 3

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them... Votes: 3

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war. Votes: 3

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened. Votes: 2

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. Votes: 2

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. Votes: 2

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Votes: 2

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. Votes: 2

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened. Votes: 2

Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. Votes: 2

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. Votes: 2

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence. Votes: 2

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it. Votes: 2

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. Votes: 2

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me. Votes: 2

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again. Votes: 2

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. Votes: 2

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. Votes: 2

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. Votes: 2

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board. Votes: 2

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. Votes: 2

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up. Votes: 2

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. Votes: 2

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character. Votes: 2

Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness. Votes: 2

I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that. Votes: 2

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. Votes: 2

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared. Votes: 2

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time. Votes: 2

I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home. Votes: 2

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me. Votes: 2

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me. Votes: 2

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. Votes: 2

The eye is easily frightened. Votes: 0

Bullies are just frightened people. Votes: 0

Actors are frightened little children. Votes: 0

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable. Votes: 0

Wars are begun by frightened men. Votes: 0

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake. Votes: 0

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself. Votes: 0

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. Votes: 0

We're frightened of what makes us different. Votes: 0

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened. Votes: 0

Naysayers are frightened of their own power. Votes: 0

A frightened man is a beaten man. Votes: 0

Better be killed than frightened to death. Votes: 0

We should not be frightened by appearances. Votes: 0

If you're frightened, you're out of luck. Votes: 0

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence. Votes: 0

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things. Votes: 0

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness. Votes: 0

Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind. Votes: 0

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened. Votes: 0

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. Votes: 0

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. Votes: 0

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man! Votes: 0

I think the media's a little frightened of women. Votes: 0

I am never frightened when I tell the truth. Votes: 0

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. Votes: 0

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions. Votes: 0

It is better to be killed than frightened to death. Votes: 0

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. Votes: 0

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. Votes: 0

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. Votes: 0

It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Votes: 0

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored. Votes: 0

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves. Votes: 0

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened. Votes: 0

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter Votes: 0

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement. Votes: 0

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. Votes: 0

The one frightened of climbing mountains, forever lives in the ditches. Votes: 0

But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable. Votes: 0

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time. Votes: 0

I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals. Votes: 0

We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened. Votes: 0

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened. Votes: 0

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise? Votes: 0

Never to be frightened of taking risks and always follow your instincts! Votes: 0

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious. Votes: 0

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people. Votes: 0

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened Votes: 0

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty. Votes: 0

No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics. Votes: 0

Yokozuna's Bonzai Drop literally scared me as a kid. It frightened me. Votes: 0

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of. Votes: 0

Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. Votes: 0

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. Votes: 0

Little old laidesspeed away in their wheel chairs,frightened meals on wheels. Votes: 0

He had a hungry look in his eyes and it frightened her. Votes: 0

I tried heroin once and I didn't like it. It frightened me. Votes: 0

I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion Votes: 0

I like people that are not frightened to say what they think. Votes: 0

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened. Votes: 0

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread Votes: 0

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never! Votes: 0

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill. Votes: 0

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be? Votes: 0

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them. Votes: 0

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened. Votes: 0

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. Votes: 0

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. Votes: 0

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. Votes: 0

I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians. Votes: 0

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse. Votes: 0

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing. Votes: 0

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death. Votes: 0

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. Votes: 0

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity. Votes: 0

I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going. Votes: 0

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened. Votes: 0

I think what you can't see is always what you should be frightened of. Votes: 0

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. Votes: 0

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover. Votes: 0

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do. Votes: 0

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it. Votes: 0

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. Votes: 0

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child. Votes: 0

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. Votes: 0

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. Votes: 0

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned. Votes: 0

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell. Votes: 0

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go. Votes: 0

Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept. Votes: 0

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers. Votes: 0

The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened. Votes: 0

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back. Votes: 0

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. Votes: 0

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear. Votes: 0

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. Votes: 0

Dont be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes. Votes: 0

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark. Votes: 0

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world. Votes: 0

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children Votes: 0

She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened. Votes: 0

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. Votes: 0

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone. Votes: 0

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man. Votes: 0

Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. Votes: 0

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things Votes: 0

I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep. Votes: 0

The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven. Votes: 0

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Votes: 0

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened. Votes: 0

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced. Votes: 0

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying. Votes: 0

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all. Votes: 0

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of. Votes: 0

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them. Votes: 0

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. Votes: 0

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough. Votes: 0

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more. Votes: 0

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. Votes: 0

I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit. Votes: 0

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick. Votes: 0

Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them. Votes: 0

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence. Votes: 0

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. Votes: 0

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. Votes: 0

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world! Votes: 0

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive. Votes: 0

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be. Votes: 0

If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened. Votes: 0

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Votes: 0

One of the things I preach to all my staff is never be frightened to make a decision. Votes: 0

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated. Votes: 0

Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days Votes: 0

I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera." Votes: 0

Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days Votes: 0

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark. Votes: 0

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it. Votes: 0

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway? Votes: 0

I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me! Votes: 0

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands. Votes: 0

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals. Votes: 0

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die. Votes: 0

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy. Votes: 0

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy. Votes: 0

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was. Votes: 0

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. Votes: 0

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen Votes: 0

After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl. Votes: 0

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage. Votes: 0

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. Votes: 0

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy. Votes: 0

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla. Votes: 0

I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills. Votes: 0

We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future. Votes: 0

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history. Votes: 0

If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me. Votes: 0

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do. Votes: 0

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing. Votes: 0

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street. Votes: 0

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take. Votes: 0

But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility. Votes: 0

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Votes: 0

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. Votes: 0

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it. Votes: 0

It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be. Votes: 0

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. Votes: 0

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened Votes: 0

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated. Votes: 0

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid Votes: 0

If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying. Votes: 0

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it? Votes: 0

You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality. Votes: 0

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions. Votes: 0

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. Votes: 0

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people. Votes: 0

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick. Votes: 0

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. Votes: 0

Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened. Votes: 0

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers. Votes: 0

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody. Votes: 0

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. Votes: 0

Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens. Votes: 0

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile, Votes: 0

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite Votes: 0

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything. Votes: 0

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are. Votes: 0

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it. Votes: 0

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything. Votes: 0

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime. Votes: 0

With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive! Votes: 0

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. Votes: 0

I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted. Votes: 0

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. Votes: 0

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild. Votes: 0

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal. Votes: 0

All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life. Votes: 0

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out. Votes: 0

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear. Votes: 0

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. Votes: 0

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all. Votes: 0

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth. Votes: 0

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die. Votes: 0

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself. Votes: 0

When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much. Votes: 0

The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit. Votes: 0

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Votes: 0

Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart. Votes: 0

The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain. Votes: 0

I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure. Votes: 0

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything. Votes: 0

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account. Votes: 0

You know, it's an interesting thing when you consider. The Earth people who can think are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead. Votes: 0

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God. Votes: 0

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. Votes: 0

I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened. Votes: 0

From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. Votes: 0

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are. Votes: 0

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job. Votes: 0

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages Votes: 0

The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it. Votes: 0

The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness. Votes: 0

It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost. Votes: 0

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales. Votes: 0

Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most. Votes: 0

I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises. Votes: 0

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience. Votes: 0

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness. Votes: 0

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could. Votes: 0

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen. Votes: 0

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle. Votes: 0

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. Votes: 0

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security. Votes: 0

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else. Votes: 0

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do. Votes: 0

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is. Votes: 0

Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels. Votes: 0

Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within. Votes: 0

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution. Votes: 0

Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. Votes: 0

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair... Votes: 0

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful "” little animals, clawing at what we needed. Votes: 0

Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge Votes: 0

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go. Votes: 0

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. Votes: 0

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are. Votes: 0

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night. Votes: 0

I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of Buddhism-for 2,500 years-no one has broken or fractured a leg because of sitting in meditation. Votes: 0

I'm so frightened of these two people, Bill and Hillary [Clintons], that I'm making an all-out effort to make the truth known about these horrific practices. Votes: 0

I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one. Votes: 0

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. Votes: 0

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions. Votes: 0

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath. Votes: 0

What frightened her the most was the moment of those first notes, because that was when people really listened: She was changing the atmosphere in the room." Votes: 0

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order. Votes: 0

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged. Votes: 0

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time. Votes: 0

I'm really not afraid of spooky things. When I have to look really frightened, I concentrate on scary things like losing my kittens or something like that. Votes: 0

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense. Votes: 0

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is. Votes: 0

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you. Votes: 0

Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened? Votes: 0

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it. Votes: 0

Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come. Votes: 0

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Votes: 0

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal. Votes: 0

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal. Votes: 0

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie. Votes: 0

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me. Votes: 0

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person. Votes: 0

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. Votes: 0

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living. Votes: 0

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night. Votes: 0

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop. Votes: 0

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not? Votes: 0

If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right--that's no harm; fear is an emotion. Votes: 0

... to know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing ... Votes: 0

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety. Votes: 0

Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out Votes: 0

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced and remain convinced now that, after Hitler , Truman was the greatest murderer in the world. Votes: 0

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. Votes: 0

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too. Votes: 0

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Votes: 0

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her. Votes: 0

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead. Votes: 0

I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens. Votes: 0

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you. Votes: 0

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die Votes: 0

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened. Votes: 0

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on. Votes: 0

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose. Votes: 0

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.' Votes: 0

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! Votes: 0

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened. Votes: 0

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us. Votes: 0

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history? Votes: 0

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation. Votes: 0

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened. Votes: 0

Your heart is beating so fast,he said softly, the words barely more than a whisper. I can feel your blood humming under my hand. Are you frightened of me? Votes: 0

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it. Votes: 0

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. Votes: 0

The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God. Votes: 0

A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord. Votes: 0

Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older. Votes: 0

Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them. Votes: 0

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. Votes: 0

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind. Votes: 0

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again. Votes: 0

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel. Votes: 0

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable. Votes: 0

I was angry and frightened and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn't drink. Votes: 0

I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over! Votes: 0

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up. Votes: 0

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks. Votes: 0

If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere. Votes: 0

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time. Votes: 0

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children. Votes: 0

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon Votes: 0

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself. Votes: 0

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened. Votes: 0

Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated Votes: 0

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire. Votes: 0

I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.' Votes: 0

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame. Votes: 0

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself. Votes: 0

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. Votes: 0

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death Votes: 0

Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. Votes: 0

I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me. Votes: 0

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path. Votes: 0

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them. Votes: 0

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.] Votes: 0

Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying. Votes: 0

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish. Votes: 0

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people. Votes: 0

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. Votes: 0

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists. Votes: 0

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery! Votes: 0

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another. Votes: 0

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper. Votes: 0

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul. Votes: 0

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests. Votes: 0

I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. Votes: 0

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it. Votes: 0

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him.No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ...Why?She often told me she was frightened of getting old... Votes: 0

One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation. Votes: 0

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do. Votes: 0

Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work. Votes: 0

I don't like comfort zones. Having never had any drama training, I don't really have a technique, so I'm continually learning new things. I like being frightened, and always having to start from scratch. Votes: 0

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden. Votes: 0

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open. Votes: 0

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them. Votes: 0

I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while. Votes: 0

The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels. Votes: 0

I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man. Votes: 0

I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.' Votes: 0

I did not know that [ the Chancellor Angela Merkel is a bit frightened of dogs]. I wanted to make her happy. When I learned that she does not like dogs, I apologized, of course. Votes: 0

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still. Votes: 0

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category. Votes: 0

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story. Votes: 0

Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear. Votes: 0

The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge. Votes: 0

I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not. Votes: 0

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself. Votes: 0

I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people. Votes: 0

I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things. Votes: 0

She hadn't been scared for herself, she'd been frightened for me.Good. Her A-class horror movie scream earlier had nearly put me in an early grave. When this was over, I could call us even. Votes: 0

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them. Votes: 0

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love. Votes: 0

Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself."I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here. Votes: 0

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates. Votes: 0

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was. Votes: 0

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life. Votes: 0

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose. Votes: 0

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss. Votes: 0