Quotes of Frightful - somelinesforyou

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

- Doris Day

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

- Julie Burchill

“ This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. ”

- Ugo Betti

“ How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth! ”

- Sophocles

“ That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else. ”

- Dr. Laura Schlessinger

“ And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful ers. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ 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

“ When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier. ”

- Carol Alt

“ Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand. ”

- John Milton

“ It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them. ”

- Sparky Anderson

“ A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older. ”

- Simon Schama

“ If we do not believe in ourselves - neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness - the universe is a frightening place. ”

- Nathaniel Branden

“ How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. ”

- Maya Lin

“ The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ”

- Saul Steinberg

“ I had a horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi while I was with my baby. ”

- Britney Spears

“ There's something about light that's right for these terrible subjects. It's a way of having beauty let you come closer than you might otherwise. ”

- Jenny Holzer

“ His whole behavior is so shocking. ”

- Lauren Bacall

“ The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. ”

- Ludwig Mises

“ They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. ”

- Bible

“ I can tell you this for sure, it was when I played baseball in high school and I was in the outfield and I would literally pray to God - I'm not joking, I'd pray to God not to let the ball come to me. I was so bad, I was just terrible. I played soccer - I was the goalie… ”

- Justin Long

“ Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. ”

- Hannah Moore

“ There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. ”

- Françoise Sagan

“ An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. ”

- Queen Victoria

“ Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ”

- Frank Moore Colby

“ In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ”

- David Mamet

“ Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. ”

- Millicent Fenwick
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