#fright

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

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God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ↗

— Henry Ford

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As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. ↗

— Anatole France

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I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated. ↗

— David Frum

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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright. ↗