Quotes of: Frighten Keyword

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

A Storm of Swords

Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet." Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened.

Plain Kate

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

Prozac Nation

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Pride and Prejudice

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

The Portable Dorothy Parker

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

Tathea

, the phantoms whispered to my father, speaking my most frightening thoughts in a chorus of voices, dripping with hatred. My hatred.

The Young Elites

Little old laides speed away in their wheel chairs, frightened meals on wheels.

Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains

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.

Mouchette

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

The Riddle

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Pete Earley

The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

P. J. O'Rourke

My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.

Sylvia Earle

Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?

Stacey Jay

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

Sherry Turkle

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

Theodore Dreiser

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Jeannette Walls

I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. I have to be almost frightened by the possibility of taking it on. Over the years, I realise I must enjoy walking that edge; I keep doing it.

Mark Harmon

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

Robin S. Sharma

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Aimee Mullins