#fright

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.' ↗

— John Thorn

#business #came #ceded #control #frightened

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. ↗

— James Bovard

#easier #fear #frighten #government #ignorant

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#afraid #already #before #craven #fright

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. ↗

— Edward Norton

#always #angry #because #come #contradictions

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

— George MacDonald

#fear #frightened #how #never #strange

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#frighten #management #memory #small #small children

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#fascinated #figure #frightening #i #i am

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me. ↗

— Matthew Broderick

#am #bigger #character #does #even

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic bomb #bomb #damage #desolation #eden

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#being #definitely #feminist #frightening #fun