Quotes about Fearful Encounter

Veronica Roth

I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.

Mickey Rourke

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

David Crockett

I would rather risk myself in an Indian fight than venture among these creatures after night. God deliver me from such constituents or from a party supported by such.

The congressman visited New York City for the first time. He was taken to Martin Van Buren's political stronghold, the sixth ward.

Julie Kagawa

The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.""One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.

Abbi Glines

Then the fear all humans felt when met with Death’s gaze came over his face. That’s right buddy, I’m Death, now move away from my girl.

Oscar Wilde

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Emily Dickinson

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

Herbert Hoover

…a very dangerous and contrary man … I would never see him alone.

Absurd attacks on a presidential opponent’s character have not only been made in modern times. There is a long history of trying to drive up an opponent’s negatives by making almost paranoid accusations. What was so absurd about this particular effort was that one characteristic of FDR that almost everyone agreed upon was his affability and charm. People loved to be with him and speak with him alone. Many conservatives thought that FDR’s policies and programs were dangerous for the country, but other than Hoover, there appears to be no other prominent person who expressed any personal fear of being alone with Roosevelt.

Allen Tate

Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

Peter O'Toole

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.

Conchita Wurst

One year, my parents hired someone in the village to dress up as Krampus for a surprise visit to our home - and they regretted it for ever. I went to the door and this huge creature was standing there. I think I passed out.

Patrick Carman

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

Sunita Williams

When you're faced with something for the first time, and if you're scared to death of that, you might want to reconcile your life beforehand.

Fearful Encounter Quotes