At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you. " -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider. " -Myrnin "You're insane. " -Claire
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused. . . Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.
I wanted to be a poet andor an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.