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Quotes About Frightens

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
~ Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
~ Aidan Chambers
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
~ Anne Perry
Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is.
~ Paul G. Tremblay
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
~ Anne Perry, Tathea
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
~ Hilary Mantel
I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I'm only ambitious in the sense that I want to work in as many different media as I can and to play characters which are different to me and to each other. I want to do work that frightens me or challenges me, be it in Dublin or Zimbabwe. I just want to be working.
~ Ruth Bradley
The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.
~ George W. Bush
I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.
~ Lou Doillon
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That's what I'll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do not know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
~ Hilary Mantel
The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us.
~ John Steinbeck
Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
~ Jerome Cady
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
~ Salman Rushdie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be.
~ Marianne Williamson
You don't have anything new to say, Ethelred, but you carry on writing crime novels. I mean, it's fine. Your readers don't like new stuff. It frightens the shit out of them.
~ Unknown
If he wears a tag, doesn't that make him harmless? It sounds rather sweet, like a kitten with a bell around its neck. A dissolute character without a tag is what frightens me.
~ Osamu Dazai
You cannot respond appropriately to denial if you believe the abuser. Do not believe the abuser's denial, or you may be caught in the endless cycle of trying to explain to him how he hurts or frightens you and just how disturbing some of his behavior is.
~ Unknown