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Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within. — Jim Elliot

The dog which frightens the people by barking loud thinks he is the king of the universe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick. — Rex Stout

The word reality frightens me. — Arthur Eddington

I don't know what frightens me more — Gregory David Roberts

We cannot stop now, even though it frightens us that we are alone in our knowledge. — Ayn Rand

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. — Roland Barthes

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else. — Patrick Stewart

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot. — Helen Mirren

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. — Alice Hoffman

I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation! — Giacomo Puccini

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. — Anatole France

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. — Malala Yousafzai

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me
the chance of failure. — Sally Field

Her courage frightens and amazes me. It make me hopeful for her. Is that what you call love? Is that what you call hope? — Rene Denfeld

Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more. — Billie Whitelaw

For no magic frightens a cold heart more than the threat of feeling that which it inflicts. — Heather Killough-Walden

I'm completely alone in the world; it frightens me to be so empty and lost. — Henrik Ibsen

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. — Elie Wiesel

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows. — Megan Hart

Some folk, too, believe what the loudest talker says. And some folk because it frightens them not to. — Anne McCaffrey

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it. — Georges Bernanos

It is this, not the spirits, that frightens us; shall we never be free, even after we die? — Emilie Autumn

Reality in strong doses frightens. — Victor Hugo

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Heat and dryness frightens me,
like skeletal shapes of war,
two of them look doomed
and challenge the peace blazing. — J.M.K. Walkow

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. — David Markson

It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror. — Jessica Sorensen

One thing about change hasn't changed: it still fascinates some people, frightens others, and provides a good living for a prophetic minority. — Warren W. Wiersbe

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else. — Jerome Cady

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

At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge. — Diane Keaton

So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at. — James Clavell

It is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. — Umberto Eco

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it. — Gregory David Roberts

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power. — Robin S. Sharma

Write about the thing that frightens you most. — Marsha Norman

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour. — Henry Parry Liddon

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come. — Guy Finley

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water. — Philippe Petit

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me. — Adele

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. — Anne Perry

The future is a strange monster. The less there is of it, the more it frightens. — James Lovegrove

Every day do something that frightens you. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them. — Rachel Swirsky

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. — Lauren DeStefano

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear. — Elaine Stritch

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me. — Harlan Coben

I have wanted to have a baby since I was a teenager, but it frightens me. It is much easier to have a dog. — Carmen Electra

It frightens me about being alone with Cal, at least in daylight. But when night falls, there's no one I'd rather see. — Victoria Aveyard

[S]ex no longer frightens people; it can no longer be used to develop a sense of guilt, and thereby to force submission. — Erich Fromm

Cruelty, I understand. But kindness frightens me, for my defenses are weak against it. ~Zahra — Jessica Khoury

I've never killed anyone before. What frightens me isn't that I'm killing someone. What frightens me is how easy it is. — Susan Ee

There's a reverence in the way he kisses me that frightens me, because it's the most wonderful thing I've ever felt. — Katja Millay

There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. — Sarah J. Maas

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them. — Gene Edwards

It frightens him to think of her this way. It makes her seem, in terms of love, so vast. — John Updike

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. — Mignon McLaughlin

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We — Robert A. Heinlein

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. — Joseph Sobran

The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us. — John Steinbeck

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated. — Anupam Kher

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We — Debbie Ford

There's very little that frightens me more than the Grim Reaper when he's horny. — Larissa Ione

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout. — Garth Risk Hallberg

He who sings frightens away his ills. — Miguel De Cervantes

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me. — Jules Verne

You're growing old together," she said to me. "You and what frightens you. — Vivian Gornick

I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.
This frightens all children,
And kills fear in the wise. — Nagarjuna

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me — Oscar Wilde

Desire is boundless, and boundlessness frightens us. — Martha Roth

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book. — Malala Yousafzai

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be ... — Bob Dylan

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity. — Jerome Lawrence

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them. — Harriet Rubin

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me. — William Shatner

We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality. — Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake. — Franz Grillparzer

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally. — Patti Davis

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ... — Gwendolyn Brooks

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes. — Patrick Leahy

It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you. — Marissa Meyer

If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred — Christina Engela

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. — Salman Rushdie

We live in a world so horrifying, it frightens even the dead — Cat Winters

So you'll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you."
"Well ... yes. — Rachel Caine

Often the thing that frightens us the most is the one that should be done first. — Mark Zenner

Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us. — Helene Cixous

A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide. — Jonathan Auxier

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. — Guy De Maupassant

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job. — Ronald Reagan

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Poetry is what frightens. It is rare, and worth waiting for. — Joyce Carol Oates

Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life. — Bryant McGill

The only thing that frightens me, Chloe, is that you keep lessening the six degrees of separation in our lives. — Addison Moore