#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

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me. ↗

— William Shatner

#frightens #i #me #read #recognize

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#beyond #created #death #delivery #devastated

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#frightening #important #lack #part #perspective

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

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

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