The eye is easily frightened.
Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.
I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars.
Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.
It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them.
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.
That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend the primary fantasy in the defiance, and avoid the real gamble or real adventure of taking a chance on something new. They are afraid that if they really cry out, if they really ask, if they really scream for help, that it won't come, and they'll be in the same panicky frightened state they were in when they were little.
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction. . . nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.
Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.
I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.
I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot of people weren't there for me when I needed them. So I have become a little shell shocked. Subsequently almost paranoid and frightened of people now. Maybe I'm losing out in meeting some marvelous people, but I am doing the only thing I can to save my spirit.
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.