#terrify

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me. ↗

— Jane Grey

#although #attention #attentions #death #desires

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying. ↗

— Lee J. Cobb

#facilities #government #individual #states #terrifying

If you wish to serve me, as you have bloodsworn yourself to do, you must do so with honor. And that does not include introducing yourself by name to people like my mother in order to terrify them into submission.” "Kem'falla—" Gaelen protested. "Don't bother to deny it," she snapped. ↗

— C.L. Wilson

#humor #terrifying #humor

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#english language #government #help #here #i

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#being #called #came #cancer #catch

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#become #becomes #complex #heart #human

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#century #made #need #reason #terrifying

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me. ↗

— Josh Groban

#form #giving #idea #me #music

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#consider #creation #good #hell #image

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#brought #destruction #development #direction #incredible