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«One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs, it could darn near have been a proposal.»
Author: Jean Harlow
(Actress)
| Keywords:
cookie, cookies, darn, darned, frightened, germs, offered, proposal, proposals, underestimate
«I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.»
«My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.»
«Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Neither side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under the earth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.»
«Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
freedom, frightened, involves, responsibility
«If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| Keywords:
accepted, brave, bravery, definition, frightened, generally, generally accepted, intelligent, No Fear, quality
«It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
ahead of the game, chasing, frightened, illusions, In Love and War, peace-loving, plain, plain sailing, sailing, scurry, scurrying, sends, unknown, wars
«I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
characters, desperate, fragile, frightened, hysteria, identify, reach out, seemingly, The characters, verge, verges
«Most agencies run scared, most of the time... Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising...If I were a client, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| Keywords:
advertising agencies, agencies, client, contracts, emancipate, emancipated, emancipating, frightened, powerless
«O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
forgetfulness, frightened, lids, nurse, steep, steeped, steeps, weigh, weighed down, wilt
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