#fright

Wars are begun by frightened men. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#frightened #men #wars

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#because #been #complete #embarrassment #everybody

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#brave #brave soldiers #crown #frighten #frightened

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#more #much #powerful #than #wanting

We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#anyone #back #company #corrections #email

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #better #beyond #frightened #i

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#fright #i #never #people #stage

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them. ↗

— John Newcombe

#bit #calm #frightened #get #got

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#frightens #infinite #me #silence #spaces

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#destruction #dungeons #duty #false #frightened