#fright

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. ↗

— James Buchan

#crisis #economists #economy #failed #financial

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#fail #frightened #going #i #mantra

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#concerns #excitement #frightened #genome #great

Wars are begun by frightened men. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#frightened #men #wars

Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things. ↗

— Toni Collette

#quiet #really #sometimes #things

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#frighten #ghost #her #religion

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#children #frightened #had #i #isolated

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

#because #been #complete #embarrassment #everybody

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

#brave #brave soldiers #crown #frighten #frightened

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

#among #away #came #family #five