“In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.” PeopleCountryMovingAuthorityAreasScaredOppressedPakistanWilder Author:Imran Khan
“There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens to be cloaked in religion, but these are people saying enough is enough. It's happened again and again through history. The good news is that modernism has always won.” PeopleLooksReasonEnoughHappensHappenedNewsScaredReactionsAgain And AgainFundamentalismGood NewsModernityModernismEnough Is Enough Author:Paul Saffo
“I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.” ThinkingLooksLittlesEyeBeautifulAnimalHairSkinsCaughtScaredBonesBrilliantDelicateBatsVelvet Author:Pablo Picasso
“There is a Sufi trend, a madhabi Sufi trend, and I don't have any problem with this. What is not acceptable is that, first, some scholars are trying to show to the audience that they are open to other trends. However, when it comes to the retreat or the panels, they don't want to be with some of us because they are scared of being exposed.” WantTryingFirstsShowsProblemAudienceScaredTrendsExposedAcceptableScholarRetreatSufi Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I talk to the young generation and advise them to be both fully Muslim and fully Western citizens, to be free, to speak out, to express themselves. We have new generations of Muslims who were born in the West, coming from within, and they are well educated and they understand. Some sisters and brothers are ready, yes, even though I can see young sisters and brothers who are also obsessed with their social status, their titles, their salary and are scared to not be tolerated.” WellsI CanYoungSpeakSocialBornGenerationsReadyBrotherCitizensWestWesternScaredEducatedTitlesObsessedBrothers And SistersSalaryAdviseNew GenerationSpeaks OutWell EducatedSocial StatusYoung Generation Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I am so weak over love and heartbreak. My music is rhythm and blues and with that said, the blues element of it is a major portion. I feel like it has been lost in R&B and a lot of people are scared to talk about their vulnerabilities and insecurities. They want to keep it up and in the club.” PeopleWantFeelsHas BeensSaidLostElementsMajorsMusic IsWeakScaredClubsRhythmVulnerabilityInsecurityPortionsRhythm And BluesLove And Heartbreak Author:Adrian Marcel
“Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in desperation. They come to the border, and we put them in trucks and send them back to Mexico to die. And here people are scared of illegal immigrants - that's what we're doing. It's pretty shocking.” PeopleWorldWayDiesMurderScaredHorribleBordersImmigrantsIllegalMexicoDesperationShockingTruckAtrocitiesFleeingIllegal ImmigrantsInfanticideHonduras Author:Noam Chomsky
“Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.” PeopleI CanDoneBodyOpportunityChanceShareCapableScaredWillingnessTake A Chance Author:Carmen Ejogo
“There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.” PeopleTwoMatterRunningTypeCircumstancesNo Matter WhatScaredRunning ScaredRunning Free Author:Tavis Smiley
“I was really scared that other girls hated me, that I wasn't pretty enough or cool enough or I didn't have enough Instagram followers or whatever. Finding female friendship was such a monumental point in my life. And I never want somebody to feel like they have to re-evaluate themselves to join my friends or to join any friend-group.” WantFeelsEnoughGirlGroupsFindingsMy FriendsFemaleScaredHatedFollowersInstagramEvaluateOther GirlFemale Friendship Author:Rowan Blanchard
“The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other streaming into their neighbourhood and don't always know where to lay their foundations in a world on the move.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsMovingFoundationLaysScaredNationalismStreamingNeighbourhoodsInternationalism Author:Pico Iyer
“You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.” LittlesPaintScaredMasterpiece Author:Alex Katz
“It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!” ScaredButterflyBizarreSnakesSpidersEerie Author:Nicole Kidman
“I've always loved so many different things about social media and music and art and fashion. I always loved it. But I've been too scared to jump into it, knowing that people would be upset about it. So that's why I hid from it. And now, I'm not afraid to be myself.” PeopleArtDifferentFashionScaredSocial MediaUpsetNot Afraid Author:McKayla Maroney
“All leftists are constantly scared because they know that the victories they have are really not solid, their victories are the result of authoritarianism and bulliness. They're not the result of a majority of people agreeing with them. They know that a majority of this country is not for gay marriage. They know they've succeeded in bullying the country into it.” PeopleCountryVictoryGayScaredBullyingGay Marriage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If you work through the night you can do anything.” ThinkingNightScaredThis DayInsecure Author:Edward Sorel
“I was always nervous, always scared. That's stayed with me my whole life. I think it's all our genes. We're all stuck with ourselves. I wish I were calm. Never get scared, always calm, but that's not me. I panic easily.” ThinkingWishCalmScaredWhole LifeStuckNervous Author:Edward Sorel
“Defeat will help you. I've been there and done that. I shook it off and came back stronger. It's nothing to be scared about.” DoneHelpingStrongerDefeatScared Author:Wladimir Klitschko
“I've always been a horror movie fan, since I was a kid. And I was also a really scared kid. I was easily scared of the dark. One of the ways I would try and get away from my fear of the dark was to pretend like the monsters were my friends.” TryingKidsDarkHorrorScaredGet Away Author:Dan Chaon
“I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.” PeopleThinkingCountryTodayCultureHouseEasyHurtScaredViolentBullyThings ChangePsychopathHumiliate Author:Eve Ensler
“Trump represents 30 percent of right wing ideology of white scared people. People who have freaked out as Trump points the blame on Mexicans when you have what you have in Europe. He is making all of the white people scared only 3 out of 10 people really believe all the stuff that is being said by him. You have to remember that there are still 7 out of 10 people in this country who don't think his ideas are good ideas. I am not afraid of Trump; I am more afraid of the people that think his ideas are good.” PeopleThinkingBelieveCountryRememberBlameScaredIdeologyNot AfraidRight Wing Author:Al Jourgensen
“What a great unifier getting scared is. Not in an actual threatening, real-world way, but getting scared from horror movies or haunted houses or ghost stories. You laugh because it's a release. People laugh when they're nervous. I laugh so much at a haunted house. It's out of fear, but it's also a wonderful release. Getting scared like that, you feel good, and you feel exhilarated afterwards.” PeopleHouseLaughingWonderfulHorrorScaredGhostFeel GoodNervousThreatening Author:Kyle Kinane
“When you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear a scary sound, you're not picturing yourself getting the girl, you're not picturing yourself winning the prize and becoming a hero. What makes you scared is the fear that you're gonna die, or that something horrific is gonna happen. So while I'm not opposed to happy ending, or wherever the story is naturally supposed to go-I do end up finding that I like movies where you almost end up feel, at best, that the character survived it more than championed over it.” CharacterNightGirlWinningHeroWake UpScaredScaryPrizeOver ItHappy EndingsHorrific Author:Bryan Bertino
“It's easy to ignore the mess around election do that over here in Germany. It's just a blip on the radar for the German culture. They're like, "Y'all are crazy over there. Next segment." I'm not saying they're not scared. They're just wondering when people are going to wake up and see the pattern they themselves lived through and could see coming from a much greater distance. They don't have the hubris of youth to luxuriate in. According to the Germans I've spoken with, Trump's rise looks very similar to what happened prior to Hitler rising to power.” PeopleCultureEasyWonderCrazyYouthWake UpElectionDistanceScaredMessHubris Author:Measha Brueggergosman
“I've done really well on one core principle which is, I think I have an intuitive ability to understand consumer behavior more than the average bear, and I'm not scared to bet the farm on that gut feeling.” ThinkingDoneFeelingsAbilityBehaviorScaredGuts Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.” PowerfulProveScaredDenialPersistenceRejectionHave FaithKey To Success Author:Mastin Kipp
“Whatever you think The Uni-verse is withholding from you, YOU are withholding from The Uni-verse. If you think that The Uni-verse isn't answering your prayers, chances are you aren't listening to your intuition and following it. You are so scared that you ask for new intuition, but that's not how life works. The Uni-verse is constantly whispering to you, nudging you to trust It and take a leap. But if you don't take the leap of faith, then The Uni-verse can't open any more doors for you.” ThinkingChancePrayerListeningScaredIntuitionLeapOur PrayersLeap Of Faith Author:Mastin Kipp
“Why is the media doing what they're doing? Well, there are many answers for it. I don't mean to be insulting anybody here. Clearly, the media hates Trump, yeah, and clearly the media's a bunch of leftists and they don't like Trump's policies, and clearly this and clearly that. But there's another factor to this, too, that I don't think can be denied - and I think they're scared to death. Donald Trump is unraveling, bit by bit, major elements of the Barack Obama agenda.” ThinkingMeanHatePolicyScaredBarackInsulting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's always been important to us to be original, which sounds really easy when you say it. Everyone says it all the time, but it's actually not that easy to be original. It's also something scary because if you're doing stuff that doesn't sound like anything else, I think a lot of people get scared of that. A lot of people tend to follow instead, they wait for something else to do something new and then they follow that. We just don't like to do that.” PeopleThinkingImportantEasyWaitingScaredScarySomething New Author:Christian Karlsson
“There's that really scary moment when you premiere music that no one's heard. It's the best and the worst moment. You're so scared. If it goes down well, then it's the best ever, but before you do it you want to die.” MomentsWorstScaredScaryWanting To DieReally Scary Author:Christian Karlsson
“Being part of what I call the "click" generation - where everything has to be fast and revolutionary and you just want more, and it's about likes and consuming - I want to bring new things to the table. A lot of designers say they're scared or overwhelmed because everything moves so quickly now. I think it would be scarier if it was too slow. I want to go fast.” ThinkingMovingScaredRevolutionaryDesignerOverwhelmed Author:Olivier Rousteing
“I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least.” MovingTechnologyNovelHonestSolitudeScaredBeing HonestBubblesSocial Interaction Author:Martin Starr
“I've always been scared of becoming something. I fear the fact of jailing myself in any circle or group of people or specific work or specific style of music. I guess it is because I don't want to close myself to other possibilities. But it is also because I witnessed people growing and starting to speak only to those who are similar to them. This makes me run away, people who don't experience difference anymore.” PeopleRunningSpeakStylePossibilityScaredRunning Away Author:Gaspar Claus
“The Saudis are so happy. People don't understand, the Saudi Arabian government - kingdom - hates Iran. They're scared to death of Iran. That's Shi'a versus Sunni Muslim, and the Iranians are Persians. They're not Arabs. So it's a double whammy. There is no love lost, and the Saudis have been petrified over Barack Obama's peace dance and nuclear dealings with the nation of Iran. They are ecstatic to have Donald Trump.” PeopleHateScaredBarackLost LoveEcstaticHappy PeopleArabian Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My parents were supportive. But they were scared. We were undocumented. We came to the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed. They applied for a green card right away but it took us 12 years to get it, so for me, from the ages of 7 to 19.” AgeParentScaredSupportiveVisa Author:Carlo Alban
“I am Latino. I'm proud of being Latino. That's not to say I wouldn't love to see more diversity in casting. It's starting to get better but we are nowhere near where we need to be. But I'm not scared of playing Latinos, as long as they're well-drawn.” LongProudDiversityScaredGet BetterLatino Author:Carlo Alban
“I have a lot of mental issues that I just am so fearful of things, which I shouldn't be, right? Scared of heights. Scared of buildings falling on me. Scared of the dark. Scared of crowds. Those are my biggest issues. I'm just scared of people. It's just - in general.” PeopleFallDarkBuildingScaredFearful Author:Bubba Watson
“I left to go off and do other things. In terms of the group, I'm definitely the boss. I wouldn't say they were scared of me, but they listen to what I have to say.” TermScaredBoss Author:Wayne Hussey
“I don't like having hierarchical structures. So, everybody knows that I'm the boss but, from that, I don't like people to walk on eggshells. I like people to be friendly and to feel loved. I think that kind of fits into creativity stronger. If people are scared, they are afraid to come up with ideas.” PeopleThinkingKindCreativityFitStrongerScaredFriendlyBoss Author:Daniel Espinosa
“Advertisers have become scared of talking about certain issues because they don't want to upset an American family. I think it's a shame because there are things we want to talk to our kids about. So to be able to talk about LGBT issues on our shows. To be able to to talk about sex on our shows. Now if you're like, "I'm going to do an episode talking to kids about sex," on a network that's hard to do!” ThinkingKidsShameScaredUpsetLgbt Author:Gloria Calderon Kellett
“Hillary's never been anything but the Smartest Woman in the World. I've talked about this I don't know how many times. I know Republicans and conservatives scared to death of this woman, scared to death. And it isn't because they think she's not sophisticated. It isn't because they think she's stupid. But she gets into trouble enough or she fails enough, like when she does poorly in a primary, what do they chalk it up to? Sexism, like Don Lemon did. Sexism.” ThinkingWorldEnoughFailingTroubleStupidRepublicanScaredSexismSophisticatedLemons Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think the Republican Party has changed. I think our politics have changed. The parties have deteriorated in their strength. They decentralized. We have these new super PACs and outside organizations and the Tea Party, a libertarian movement in the Republican Party. It's very different. And I think these Republicans now are very scared.” ThinkingDifferentPartyChangedRepublicanScaredLibertarianTeaRepublican PartyTea Party Author:Stuart Rothenberg
“Every day I wake up like, "This might be my last day, and I'm not scared of it. I'm gonna go out there, do what I gotta do; I ain't gonna let nothing stop me." Nothing puts any fear in my heart. I'm never scared to bite my tongue about something, or never be scared to come out and speak about something - that's what I mean. Like, I ain't scared of death. What you gonna do to me?” HeartMeanSpeakMy HeartWake UpScaredLast Day Author:Prodigy
“I was 14, when I wanted to be an actor. My parents were basically like, "This is a very hard life, and you have to be really serious about it, and show us that you're serious about it. You can't drop out of school." They strongly encouraged me not to act professionally until I finished college, which I didn't. And I think they should have been horrified! It's a really hard life. I'd be really scared if I had a child who wanted to be an actor.” ThinkingChildrenSchoolParentCollegeSeriousScaredHard Life Author:Zoe Kazan
“I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm still a little scared of black metal and death metal and their provocative imagery.” MomentsBlackSceneScaredMetalsImageryProvocativeHeavy MetalFinnish Author:Jussi Lehtisalo
“Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared because they are humiliated on a daily basis and treated like meat, like sexual objects, like slaves.” ChildrenParentPropertySlaveScaredHumiliated Author:Andre Vltchek
“Many women are so scared of the society and of their families, that if they get pregnant out of wedlock, they would rather abandon their children-throw them into the gutter, than to confront society. Indonesia has one of the highest child-abandonment rates in the world, but again, most of it goes unreported.” WorldRateScaredAbandonPregnant Author:Andre Vltchek
“People in Indonesia are scared of being assaulted, insulted, robbed or raped. Again, it is because they are unprotected. Police and even the legal system are corrupt or/and on the side of the rich. Victims see no justice. How could you not be scared in almost total lawlessness?” PeopleJusticeRichPoliceVictimScaredInsulted Author:Andre Vltchek
“People are scared of falling sick in Indonesia, because Indonesia has one of the most compassionless medical systems in the world, totally abandoned to market forces. Medical care here is just 'business', as everything else here has become 'business'. It is quite terrifying and grotesque.” PeopleWorldCareFallSickScaredMedicalAbandonedMedical Care Author:Andre Vltchek
“And of course, Indonesian people are above all scared of being 'different'. Being different here is punished brutally. Different people get mocked, ostracized, raped, tortured, and murdered. They are banned. To be a Communist is banned. To be gay is banned. To be an atheist is banned. To be a Taoist is banned. Being one of a thousand things is banned.” PeopleDifferentGayAtheistScaredCommunistBeing Different Author:Andre Vltchek