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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
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
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
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
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
— Elie Wiesel
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
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
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
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
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
— Anne Perry
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
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 not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.
This frightens all children,
And kills fear in the wise. — Nagarjuna
I have not, I will not have.
This frightens all children,
And kills fear in the wise. — Nagarjuna
Desire is boundless, and boundlessness frightens us.
— Martha Roth
Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.
— Malala Yousafzai
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
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
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
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
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