I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.
It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.
We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe. . . The implications of our beliefs are frightening.
'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening. . . The process of doing it was unique because I wrote the songs in the order they were recorded, so it was written like a story.
I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.
I think it's very important to keep being frightened - if you're not frightening yourself, you should take a break. You need to keep experimenting. You also need to take time - that's how you do good stuff - layering and depth of knowledge.
Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening. " (Brigan)
Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.
A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.
I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.
People ask me many times, "Aren't you afraid you're going to scare people? Aren't you afraid you're going to make people feel bad about the human race?" I look at it as entirely the opposite. Something you can understand and identify should be less frightening than something you can't. And to understand that there are people who are capable of acting without conscience, without considering other people at all, explains a lot of things.
I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.
You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.
The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!
For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.