Terror Quotes - Page 23

• Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them, fearing they were falling into Hell itself. Men were moved by fear to escape damnation. That was believed to be Christianity. Why any coward wanted to keep out of Hell. He might not have had one idea in his soul of what was the real true earmark of Christianity.

  John G. Lake

  Real, Fall, Men

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• The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hate, Past

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• Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Democracy, Parliament

  "The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2006.

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• Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Change, Travel

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• There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Men, Silence

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• So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Blessing

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Time, Truth, Blood

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.197, Verso

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• I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.

  Boethius

  Music, Song, Real

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Knowing, Panic, Mental Health

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Rejection, Effort

  "George Mitchell and King Abdullah II". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2011.

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• We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Nature, Asylums

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Night, Fire, Bells

  Letter to John Holmes, 22 Apr. 1820.

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• I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Wind, Wings

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• A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Chance, Sin

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• It's official: cyber terror is the new yellowcake uranium.

  Kevin Poulsen

  Cyber, Uranium, Officials

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• Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.

  Harrison Ford

  Self, Political, Atrocities

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• Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Fun, Film, Ifs

  "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

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• Horror and moral terror are your friends.

  Marlon Brando

  Moral, Horror, Apocalypse

  "Fictional character: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. August 15, 1979.

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• It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.

  Vera Farmiga

  Excitement, Moments, Pure

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

  John C. McGinley

  Waiting Rooms, People, Calm

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• The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

  Laurence Olivier

  Drama, Exercise, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Profound, Climate

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• It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.

  Lucy Liu

  Running, Fun, Thinking

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• Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sea, Maelstrom, Hopelessness

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• The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.

  Olaudah Equiano

  Eye, Anchors, Sea

  Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner (2017). “BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume): Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and many more”, p.1171, e-artnow

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