If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.
but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.
This generation is frightened of ideas, or at least it's being suppressed.
I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.
Courage isn’t just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It’s being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot of people weren't there for me when I needed them. So I have become a little shell shocked. Subsequently almost paranoid and frightened of people now. Maybe I'm losing out in meeting some marvelous people, but I am doing the only thing I can to save my spirit.
I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels. " He said, "You've got cholera. "
I don't know why in this country we coddle corporate criminals, war criminals, and racists. People walk on eggshells around them, and yet they will say a word like "liberal" as if it's pejorative. Or somebody who wants unions or reproductive justice, they will treat them like there's something wrong with that person. Does that make sense? People seem to be more frightened of upsetting a war criminal or a racist and more willing to disparage a very nice guy like Dennis Kucinich. Does that make sense?
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.
A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
I tried heroin once and I didn't like it. It frightened me.
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.
I think the media's a little frightened of women.