Frightened Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

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

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.

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

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.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Better be killed than frightened to death.

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.

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.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

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

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

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.