Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man you're quite battle-scarred.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

How we are using up our home how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

However painful the process of leaving home for parents and for children the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Thanks to evolution our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why then do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and if possible funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you to feel the freedom of expression to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up the person who does not want to carry is own weight this is a frightening prospect.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know when large famous groups breakup a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I don't use drugs my dreams are frightening enough.

My father's death my move and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress pain and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Death is frightening and so is Eternal Life.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Sureness is something like a neck brace which we clamp around our lives hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening constant whiplash of change. Sadly the brace doesn't always hold.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.