Quotes of Frightening - somelinesforyou

“ Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. ”

- Ann Coulter

“ Television is rather a frightening business. But I get all the relaxation I want from my collection of model soldiers. ”

- Peter Cushing

“ To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster. ”

- John Carpenter

“ It rubs me the wrong way, a camera… It's a frightening thing…Cameras make ghosts out of people. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ”

- Greta Garbo

“ Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”

- James A. Baldwin

“ We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that? ”

- Robert Stone

“ How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ”

- Laurens Van der Post

“ I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. ”

- M. C. Escher

“ Nothing is as frightening as ignorance in action. ”

- Goethe

“ A good part — and definitely the most fun part — of being a feminist is about frightening men. ”

- Julie Burchill

“ Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening… Being "fearless" means being without fear. ”

- Penelope Leach

“ Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: it's frightening. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ”

- Doris Day

“ I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough. ”

- Marie E. Eschenbach

“ Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers — the rich. ”

- Stephen Bayley

“ It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do — or don't do. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. ”

- Michelene Wand

“ We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ”

- May Sarton

“ Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. ”

- Elisabeth Kubler Ross

“ This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. ”

- David Brooks

“ At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Sometimes being with Victoria was like tiptoeing through a mine field. Put one foot wrong and everything is going to be blown sky-high. It was exciting, but often frightening. She had a terrible temper at times. ”

- Andy Gibb

“ To ask brave soldiers to go into the inferno of Afghanistan and Iraq and by virtue of their skill and courage, under the televised scrutiny of a global audience, end the rule of murderers was not easy. Nor was staying on to help the helpless. Yes, the truly frightening alternative was the blustering inaction that we have seen for the past 20 years that led to September 11 and the real quagmire in the Middle East. ”

- Victor Davis Hanson
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