Frightened Quotes

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

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

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

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.

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

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.

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?

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

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.

The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.

Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.

My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.

What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.

I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.

Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.

The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.

Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.

If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.

Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction.

Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.

The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.