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- Nov 07, 2020
Frighten Quotes
What scares people, and who benefits.
These frighten quotes describe rattling entrenched interests, including bank leadership and union bosses, over a controversial graduate-payment plan. See our Best quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.
- Make Me Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me. It's more of a yearning for that than something that has to necessarily be cerebral or sophisticated. Good storytelling and something that actually frightens you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020