#fright

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hurt #imagination #more #often #reality

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening. ↗

— Sting

#frightening #living #make #over #very

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#bush #cheney #dick cheney #donald #find

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates? ↗

— David Suzuki

#climb #continue #costs #enable #evolution

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#fleeting #fright #heaven #life-and-living #love

I wasn't sure how it looked on paper when a crew of costumed oddballs took on Canadian meth dealers. ↗

— Tea Krulos

#inspirational #inspirational

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#frightful #live #nothing

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#bit #children #first #frightened #moment

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened. ↗