#frighten

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ↗

— Jean Paul

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. ↗

— George MacDonald

#fear #frightened #how #never #strange

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. ↗

— Sophocles

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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#always #coasters #feel #films #frightened

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#bit #devoted #else #frightens #life

Better be killed than frightened to death. ↗