#scared

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#being #courage #death #knows #only

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#like #move #observe #police #scared

It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen. ↗

— Ann M. Martin

#safety #scared #life

Daddy had only just got into bed when, from the next room, a small voice called, "Hello?" "What do you want?" Daddy demanded, perhaps a trifle less patiently than usual. There came a long silence. Then from a sleepy child came the reply, "I don't want anything 'cept I just want to know somebody is there." That is the cry of million of hearts, millions who feel they can manage along through life as long as there is someone to share it with. ↗

— Francis Gay

#life #scared #share #son #life

You're scared of what you can't control ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#life #scared #life

I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#crap #get #i #like #mean

I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#i #i think #like #scared #think

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#because #being #being alone #called #close

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly. ↗

— Della Reese

#i #knew #limbs #lost #scared

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that. ↗

— Pee Wee Reese

#beats #because #been #did #guess