Terror Quotes - Page 31

• Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Believe, Years

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Powerful, Creativity, Hands

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• What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Daughter, Mother, Creativity

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• Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

  Moira Johnston

  Years, Boredom, Directors

  Moira Johnston (2000). “The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America”, p.49, Beard Books

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• Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sight, Snakes, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Judgement, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

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• ...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Night, Men

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• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

  Don DeLillo

  Lonely, Effort, Anxiety

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

  William Kenneth Hartmann

  Science, Sometimes, Physics

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• The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there. We kind of stripped down the other things we were writing about, and that's what was left. A lot of good things have happened to us in the last couple of years both as a band and in our personal lives. But something as wonderful as having children also brings along these new fears and terrors and responsibilities.

  Patterson Hood

  Couple, Children, Responsibility

  "Drive-By Truckers change ways on 'Blessing'". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. April 13, 2006.

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Fall, Brave

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Organization, People, Giving

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• I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,
  Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
  I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,
  Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!

  Dorothea Mackellar

  Country, Nature, Rain

  1905 'Core of My Heart', first published in the London Spectator. Collected as 'My Country' in The Closed Door, and Other Verses (1911).

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• We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Fighting, Order, Government

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• We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Said, Organized

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• We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.

  Wayne Coyne

  Believe, Love Life, Giving

  "The Flaming Lips Announce New Album The Terror" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 24, 2013.

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• If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson. I did, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

  David Oliver Relin

  War, Mistake, Heart

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• Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

  Sam Keen

  Practice, Anxiety, Fearless

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• There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

  Lauren Beukes

  Order, Trying, Patterns

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• We won't apologise for our way of life, nor will we weaver in its defence, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken, you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

  Barack Obama

  Broken, Stronger, Way

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• This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Home, Doubt

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Lust

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• Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, Shamanism, Pastures

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• I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

  Alan Colmes

  War, Believe, Iraq

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