Terror Quotes - Page 29

• Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

  Vito Fossella

  War, People, Citizens

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• The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

  Dennis Potter

  Pain, Loss, Eden

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• We come into this world naked, covered in our own blood, screaming in terror - and it doesn't have to stop there if you know how to live right

  Dana Gould

  Blood, Naked, World

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• The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

  Sue Kelly

  War, Effort, National Security

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• Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Happiness, Real, Principles

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

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• I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

  Guy Sajer

  Love, Disappointment, War

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• There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Odds, Shrinking, Tomorrow

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• Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

  Pierre Loti

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

  Pierre Loti

  Past, June, Self

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• In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

  Dan Abnett

  Doors, Heavy, Approach

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• The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1988). “Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961”, p.84, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve wracking, provocative: she combines Angela Carter's beautiful style with Patricia Highsmith's malevolent atmospheres. Smyth shatters clichs and dismisses mere sociology. She knows that pleasure is besieged by terror. She tells us what we don't want to know, but need to know. Smyth's writing disturbs us, enrichingly, because truth can never be at peace with language.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Beautiful, Writing, Adventure

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• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Pain, Loneliness, Reality

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something . . . What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?

  Hans Scholl

  Christian, Mind, Answers

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• The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.

  Theodor Adorno

  Heritage, Body, Way

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• The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Nature, Children, Compassion

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• Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.

  Bruce Schneier

  Country, Media, People

  "Close the Washington Monument" by Bruce Schneier, www.schneier.com. December 2, 2010.

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• If we are to put the era of nuclear terror behind us, we must struggle against the real 'enemy.' That enemy is not nuclear weapons per se, nor is it the states that possess or develop them. The real enemy that we must confront is the ways of thinking that justify nuclear weapons; the readiness to annihilate others when they are seen as a threat or as a hindrance to the realization of our objectives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

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• For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.

  Charlie Huston

  Sleep, Loss, Judgement

  Charlie Huston (2010). “Sleepless”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Player, Games

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• We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Faith, Love Is

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me . . . and asked me in a whisper . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."

  Anna Akhmatova

  Years, Waiting In Line, One Day

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Refuge, Inner Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.209, Psychology Press

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