Scare Quotes

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

My sky is too blue for me to be scared of people painting it a little grey.

You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

I can’t run away when I’m scared. I always have to attack. That’s how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.