Frightened Quotes
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But I felt that things were taking a turn for the worse, and I was frightened. Having to stay alert in order to avoid mistakes and confront dangers had exhausted me to the point where sometimes simply the urgency of doing something made me think that I really had done it.
Elena Ferrante
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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
George Eliot
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All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.
Nicholas Sparks
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I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
Sandra Cisneros
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Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
Catherynne M. Valente
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to loose.
Erin Kelly
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When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.
Nicholas Brendon
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I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one.
Miranda Raison
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I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
Ethel Waters
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We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
Neil Postman
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I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.
Shirley Henderson
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During that McCarthy period, I was a frightened young man. I was working, but I was frightened.
Karl Malden
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
Oscar Wilde
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Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
Cynthia Heimel
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Wendy Wasserstein
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The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
Thomas R. Cech
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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
Sharon Creech
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I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.
Helen McCrory
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
Cate Blanchett
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The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.
Evan Harris
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Turkey's relationship with the West is a love-hate one. There are people in Turkey who want to open to the outside world and others who are frightened of the outside world. They don't feel secure; they think that foreigners are trying to harm or even destroy Turkey. But that's not true of the majority of Turks, who want to exercise their skills in a global market.
Andrew Mango
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I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.
Richard Matheson
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I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians.
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw