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Frightening Quotes (page 17)

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful-how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, stickinglike lint to the familiar. Mary Oliver
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see... Amy Tan
Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies. Roger Waters
This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time! Maxim Gorky
She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her J. K. Rowling
I only hope that one day I can frighten my daughter this much. Right now, she's not scared of my husband or me at all. I think it's a problem. I was a freshman home from college the first time my dad said, "You're going out at ten p. m.? I don't think so," and I just laughed and said, "It's fine." I feel like my daughter will be doing that to me by age six. Tina Fey
Orhan Pamuk quote: "People only tell lies when there is something they are..."
People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing. Orhan Pamuk
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. E. M. Forster
George R. R. Martin quote: "Do the dead frighten you?"
Do the dead frighten you? George R. R. Martin
George Eliot quote: "But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable."
But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable. George Eliot
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 Wassily Kandinsky
I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake Dylan Thomas
Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say:?Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid! Joseph Stalin
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. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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. Jane Austen

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