Frightened – Quotes

They looked like two

They looked like two children, she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she’d always felt that only children are capable of everything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All my life, I’ve

All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no … Read more

Most people are so

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. G. H. Hardy

As for the Pope,

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. Ezra Cornell

I’m a frightened little

I’m a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion Eyedea

The option of quitting

The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused… Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit. Evan Harris

The news should have

The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. ‘I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?’ ‘We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake. Eva Ibbotson

I had always loved

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. Ethel Waters

Far too often, when

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history. Erwin McManus