Scared

Famous quotes containing the word scared:

“Some nights—some nights are darker. Some are almost black, Rachel. Like tonight. It seems so dark. And I’m scared. I’m scared of being alone.”
—Pat Fielder, and Paul Landres. Jennie (Virginia Vincent)

“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.”
—John Foster Dulles (1888–1959)

“Again we mistook a little rocky islet seen through the “drisk,” with some taller bare trunks or stumps on it, for the steamer with its smoke-pipes, but as it had not changed its position after half an hour, we were undeceived. So much do the works of man resemble the works of nature. A moose might mistake a steamer for a floating isle, and not be scared till he heard its puffing or its whistle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)