Terror Quotes - Page 24

• Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.

  Christine Schutt

  Hurt, Broken, Seductive

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• Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

  Richard Burr

  Citizens, Sake, Helping

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• The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

  Bob Newhart

  Years, Four, Littles

  Interview With Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

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• A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

  Kenneth Anger

  Mirrors, Views, Jeans

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• We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war - to the destruction and to the defeat of the global terror network.

  George W. Bush

  War, Mean, Law

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.

  George W. Bush

  War, Muslim Faith, Evil

  Address at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., delivered 17 September 2001, Washington, D.C.

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• People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

  George W. Bush

  Children, War, Love You

  "W.'s Greatest Hits" by Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. January 12, 2009.

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• The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.

  George W. Bush

  War, Hussein, Funny Bush

  "Jerry Springer, Ann Coulter Debate War With Iraq, Domestic Policy". "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Iraq, May

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• Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

  George W. Bush

  War, Terrorist Groups, Doe

  "Giuliani: 'Thank God that George Bush is our president'". www.cnn.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Fighting, Government

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating

  George W. Bush

  Military, Support, Enough

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.128, M.E. Sharpe

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• It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home. We are freedom's defender. We welcome this charge of history, and we are keeping it. The war on terror continues. The enemies of freedom are not idle. And neither are we. This country will not rest, we will not tire, we will not stop until this danger to civilization is removed.

  George W. Bush

  Country, War, Home

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Bush-Cheney 2004 Reception in San Antonio, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 30, 2003.

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• Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Believe, Opposites

  Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee

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• Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Cheney

  Suicide, Mass Destruction, Organization

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• I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, Track, Connections

  "Cheney, Edwards spar over Iraq policies". Debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

  Lucretia Mott

  Wise, Law, Sorrow

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• Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

  Nick Gordon

  Sweet, Halloween, Innocence

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• The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Europe, Hatred, Brilliant

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 245, 1856.

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• If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Impact, Terror Attacks, Historical

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• We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

  Karl Marx

  Compassion, Excuse, Turns

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

  Euripides

  Math, Logic, Reason

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.142, University of Chicago Press

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• Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Space, Midnight, Void

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• Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

  Philip Roth

  Memories, Boys, Childhood

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• As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

  Torquato Tasso

  Hair, Gleam, Sanguine

  Torquato Tasso (1802). “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, p.224

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