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Quotes About Frighten

As president, he explained why he would pardon soldiers who deserted for cowardice: "It would frighten the poor devils to death to shoot them.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
She had a murderer to find, and an island to frighten.
~ Frances Hardinge
I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
~ Michael Shannon
He's probably their battle poet, too. You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles? No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.
~ Terry Pratchett
In England the driver is always the same, a huge man called Bill Corbett, who knows the problems, chief of which is the ability to speed fast enough to frighten fans out of the way, but not so fast that they get run over.
~ Brian Epstein
Again, once one is attacked in war one can either give up and submit to looting, or one can fight. To fight means to try to frighten the other side, by a lot of murder, into stopping the war.
~ Herman Wouk
There are many myths concerning our previous, more visible existence in the world, but these are now only stories with which to frighten children.
~ Storm Constantine
Crumbling walls, adorned by basalt demons designed to frighten away invaders, cupped the wine cloaked marble villas and temples.
~ Storm Constantine
Peterson revealed that he had decided the only way to get attention was "to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically.
~ Stuart Isacoff
And I know that the idea of an evil rogue Librarian must sound like some kind of rumour. The sort of rumour which gets passed down through the years to frighten the novices.
~ Genevieve Cogman
We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.
~ Noam Chomsky
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ydych chi'n cymryd cerdynnau credid? said the highwayman, no doubt trying to frighten me further, his consonants chained like anal beads strung out of hell's own bunghole.
~ Christopher Moore
It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.
~ Victor Hugo
Conspiracy theories are also a way for people to give context and meaning to events that frighten them. Without a coherent explanation for why terrible things happen to innocent people, they would have to accept such occurrences as nothing more than the random cruelty either of an uncaring universe or an incomprehensible deity.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
villains need to develop a villainous laugh, so that they may simultaneously celebrate their villainous deeds and frighten whatever nonvillainous people happen to be nearby.
~ Lemony Snicket
What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we, as a culture, can deal with things that upset and frighten us - the darker side of our nature.
~ Mike Flanagan
Women are most adorable when they are afraid that's why they frighten so easily.
~ Ludwig Borne
Warrior, when you pledge yourself to the service of a High Priestess, the goal is not to frighten her to death but to protect your lady from death.
~ P.C. Cast
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
~ Linus Torvalds
I may be rotten, but my one virtue is that I'm not a killer. I wanted to frighten you, but I never wanted you dead. I never wanted anyone dead.
~ Holly Black
I don't like to listen to my older albums. They frighten me. I can't explain it. It's so subjective. It's so personal. I cannot listen to my first album, ever. Never, never, never.
~ Chantal Kreviazuk
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Christ! Ye scairt the bowels out of me.
~ Diana Gabaldon