Scared

Famous quotes containing the word scared:

“The fellow parent you are scared to call is as appalled by the clique’s plans as you are. . . . The other parent is as happy to hear from you as you would be to hear from him.”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)

“Brigitta: The women look so beautiful.
Kurt: I think they look lovely.
Louisa: You just say that because you’re scared of them.
Kurt: Silly. Only grown-up men are scared of women.”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)

“If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for—business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)