#fright

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#defense #freedom #frightens #manner #mechanisms

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#american people #bush #concerned #condition #frighten

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hurt #imagination #more #often #reality

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dangerous #everything #frightening #how #nothing

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#become #building #draw #frightening #lines

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

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

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#basic #each #feels #frightening #funny

At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies. ↗

— Ann Robinson

#day #earth #frightened #frightening #had

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#fright #had #i #just #minute