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[The government], they’re petrified that if I come into power, I will hold them accountable, they also know that even if I go to jail, we will swing the elections no matter what they do. – Imran Khan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He was heartbroken, george knew what it was like to be relentlessly hounded by the press… The poignancy of her passing at such a young age really did rock his world. He was also deeply affected by Whitney Houston’s death [in 2012]. He was petrified that he might end up the same way that Whitney did. And in fact, that pretty much happened. – James Gavin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I had my first puff on a joint when I was 24-and-a-half, and I was petrified, i thought I was gonna see elephants. Five, six years later, I’m in Hollywood. I got a little cocaine in my pocket, a couple of quaaludes. I can’t do a little of anything. – James Caan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
People are scared stiff, they're petrified of rocking the boat and losing their position. – Simon Latimer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm petrified and excited at the same time. – Jan Stone	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was more than nervous, I was absolutely petrified, and I do n’t know that that feeling ever went away. – Breakthrough Prize	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm petrified of returning. – Rebecca Weinstock	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. – Ludwig Von Mises	added by Normando 2 years ago
I sent some basic information along and by the morning, I had a text from someone who said,' Can you bring them down to Jackson [ Health ] this morning ?' it was surreal because I had been exploring every avenue and then all of a sudden, I had appointment confirmations. I was petrified but hoped it was real out of complete desperation. – Stefanie Thompson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't underestimate the anger people are feeling right now. It's huge. And Liz Cheney has become the target of that anger, but I don't think Liz Cheney's really the cause of it, i think it's fear of what the President Biden administration is going to do to Wyoming. We're petrified. Our entire economy, all of our jobs, our tax base has been threatened. And there's nothing we can do about Joe Biden for four years. But we can take that fear and anger out on Liz Cheney. – Gale Geringer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I was petrified, the theme music was supposed to fade, and I was supposed to do a voice-over. But every time the music faded I’d turn it back up again. Finally, the station manager stuck his head into the studio and said, ‘Remember, this is a communicating business.’ I let the music go down and told the audience what had just happened. Those were my first words on the radio. – Larry King	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Skybalonyx goes to show that prehistoric ecosystems, such as those at Petrified Forest National Park, were much more similar to the modern than previously thought, with animals climbing, burrowing, swimming and flying just like today. – Xavier Jenkins	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is genuinely so surprising that a site like Thunderstorm Ridge took this long to be discovered, and it's revealing a hidden diversity of ancient life at Petrified Forest. – Xavier Jenkins	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I was so petrified because I didn't know what that meant for my pregnancy. – Audrey Mutare	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Oh, give him asylum -- he's afraid, he's afraid ! we don't love the fact that he's got tattoos on his face, that's not a good sign. We don't love the fact that he's carrying the flag of Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, only to say he's petrified to be in his country. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I was petrified, i thought this was it, this was the end. – Jennifer Slone	Found on CNN 6 years ago
We’ve gotten a lot of petrified wood [and] Civil War relics from the area and that’s what I thought it was, this is our first set of teeth we’ve found. So we thought it was their imagination. We we’re quite surprised to see that it was not their imagination. – Lynett Welch	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They’re petrified of the opposition party. You know what my super power is? I don’t give a damn. I could care less what they say about me. I could care less. It’s about action. The Republican Party and the leaders of the Republican Party are cowards. You are writing your checks to cowards. Understand this. They are there for you when it’s easy. They are there to take your check. But when something comes up like the Iran situation, they will flip the Constitution of the United States so they can have some sort of conscience for voting for that —it’s outrageous. – Steve Bannon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
At 7 p.m. we decided to turn the snowmobile off because we worried it would run out of gas and if it did we ’d have no light, and we knew the light was the only thing that would save us, my wife was petrified : she thought we were going to die. – David Wilson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I rushed to the machine and could see the color of his fur mixed in with the quilt, i was petrified. – Lisa Keefe	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There was part of me that was petrified. These are rich and powerful people who threatened me with ruin. No rational person wouldn’t take that threat seriously. On the other hand, I thought about what I was fighting for, this is my farm, where I live with my two daughters and my pregnant wife. This is not just a business, this is not some piece of dirt, like a mall, some piece of real estate, this is my home. I have put my heart and soul into this. I have gotten our employees to buy into a long-term vision of creating the finest whiskey company in the world and I felt like I needed to fight for that, for this being the right thing for our society and civilization, as opposed to gangster capitalism. – Raj Peter Bhakta	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I mean. All of the men, we’re petrified to speak to women anymore. We may raise our voice, you know what? The women get it better than we do folks. They get it better than we do. If she didn’t play that card, she has nothing. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This guy was a really successful guide, and he died by a lion. And I think that’s the Cecil Effect. Guides in Zimbabwe are petrified of having the world turn on them. – Steve Taylor	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We were all talking about it: If you shoot a lion, your career’s over, this guy was a really successful guide, and he died by a lion. And I think that’s the Cecil Effect. Guides in Zimbabwe are petrified of having the world turn on them. – Steve Taylor	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

[The government], they’re petrified that if I come into power, I will hold them accountable, they also know that even if I go to jail, we will swing the elections no matter what they do.

– Imran Khan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was heartbroken, george knew what it was like to be relentlessly hounded by the press… The poignancy of her passing at such a young age really did rock his world. He was also deeply affected by Whitney Houston’s death [in 2012]. He was petrified that he might end up the same way that Whitney did. And in fact, that pretty much happened.

– James Gavin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I had my first puff on a joint when I was 24-and-a-half, and I was petrified, i thought I was gonna see elephants. Five, six years later, I’m in Hollywood. I got a little cocaine in my pocket, a couple of quaaludes. I can’t do a little of anything.

– James Caan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People are scared stiff, they're petrified of rocking the boat and losing their position.

– Simon Latimer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm petrified and excited at the same time.

– Jan Stone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was more than nervous, I was absolutely petrified, and I do n’t know that that feeling ever went away.

– Breakthrough Prize

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm petrified of returning.

– Rebecca Weinstock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

– Ludwig Von Mises

added by Normando
2 years ago

I sent some basic information along and by the morning, I had a text from someone who said,' Can you bring them down to Jackson [ Health ] this morning ?' it was surreal because I had been exploring every avenue and then all of a sudden, I had appointment confirmations. I was petrified but hoped it was real out of complete desperation.

– Stefanie Thompson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I don't underestimate the anger people are feeling right now. It's huge. And Liz Cheney has become the target of that anger, but I don't think Liz Cheney's really the cause of it, i think it's fear of what the President Biden administration is going to do to Wyoming. We're petrified. Our entire economy, all of our jobs, our tax base has been threatened. And there's nothing we can do about Joe Biden for four years. But we can take that fear and anger out on Liz Cheney.

– Gale Geringer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I was petrified, the theme music was supposed to fade, and I was supposed to do a voice-over. But every time the music faded I’d turn it back up again. Finally, the station manager stuck his head into the studio and said, ‘Remember, this is a communicating business.’ I let the music go down and told the audience what had just happened. Those were my first words on the radio.

– Larry King

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Skybalonyx goes to show that prehistoric ecosystems, such as those at Petrified Forest National Park, were much more similar to the modern than previously thought, with animals climbing, burrowing, swimming and flying just like today.

– Xavier Jenkins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is genuinely so surprising that a site like Thunderstorm Ridge took this long to be discovered, and it's revealing a hidden diversity of ancient life at Petrified Forest.

– Xavier Jenkins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I was so petrified because I didn't know what that meant for my pregnancy.

– Audrey Mutare

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Oh, give him asylum -- he's afraid, he's afraid ! we don't love the fact that he's got tattoos on his face, that's not a good sign. We don't love the fact that he's carrying the flag of Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, only to say he's petrified to be in his country.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I was petrified, i thought this was it, this was the end.

– Jennifer Slone

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We’ve gotten a lot of petrified wood [and] Civil War relics from the area and that’s what I thought it was, this is our first set of teeth we’ve found. So we thought it was their imagination. We we’re quite surprised to see that it was not their imagination.

– Lynett Welch

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They’re petrified of the opposition party. You know what my super power is? I don’t give a damn. I could care less what they say about me. I could care less. It’s about action. The Republican Party and the leaders of the Republican Party are cowards. You are writing your checks to cowards. Understand this. They are there for you when it’s easy. They are there to take your check. But when something comes up like the Iran situation, they will flip the Constitution of the United States so they can have some sort of conscience for voting for that —it’s outrageous.

– Steve Bannon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

At 7 p.m. we decided to turn the snowmobile off because we worried it would run out of gas and if it did we ’d have no light, and we knew the light was the only thing that would save us, my wife was petrified : she thought we were going to die.

– David Wilson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I rushed to the machine and could see the color of his fur mixed in with the quilt, i was petrified.

– Lisa Keefe

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There was part of me that was petrified. These are rich and powerful people who threatened me with ruin. No rational person wouldn’t take that threat seriously. On the other hand, I thought about what I was fighting for, this is my farm, where I live with my two daughters and my pregnant wife. This is not just a business, this is not some piece of dirt, like a mall, some piece of real estate, this is my home. I have put my heart and soul into this. I have gotten our employees to buy into a long-term vision of creating the finest whiskey company in the world and I felt like I needed to fight for that, for this being the right thing for our society and civilization, as opposed to gangster capitalism.

– Raj Peter Bhakta

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I mean. All of the men, we’re petrified to speak to women anymore. We may raise our voice, you know what? The women get it better than we do folks. They get it better than we do. If she didn’t play that card, she has nothing.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This guy was a really successful guide, and he died by a lion. And I think that’s the Cecil Effect. Guides in Zimbabwe are petrified of having the world turn on them.

– Steve Taylor

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We were all talking about it: If you shoot a lion, your career’s over, this guy was a really successful guide, and he died by a lion. And I think that’s the Cecil Effect. Guides in Zimbabwe are petrified of having the world turn on them.

– Steve Taylor

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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