#frightening

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

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

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe. ↗

— Ray Brown

#being #believe #course #everything #frightening

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#melt #stone #unnerving #watch

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#around #change #constant #frightening #hold

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#especially #frightening #giving #i #incredibly

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#attacks #back #carter #continued #damaging

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#deal #determined #frightening #going #instances

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ↗

— May Sarton

#frightening #however #may #ourselves #prove