Terror Quotes - Page 36

• And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

  George W. Bush

  War, Moving, Kids

  www.nbcnews.com. January 16, 2007.

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• Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Thinking, Space

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• Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Flying, Kneeling, Firsts

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Struggle, Soul, Together

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.27, Dell

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• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

  Hippocrates

  Sports, Sweet, Laughter

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• The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Fighting, Essence, Risk

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• Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, People, Useless

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Stupid, Islam, Majority

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• I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Sight, People

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• And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

  Robertson Davies

  Fear, Views, Soul

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fear, Love Life, Men

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• Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determined, Kind, Revolutionary

  "Lenin: Life and Legacy" by Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 203), 1994.

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• My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Careers, Happy Accidents, Kind

  "Patrick J. Adams Talks SUITS, Joining the Show, Challenging Scenes, Improv on Set and Fan Expectations for the Rest of Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Men, Aliens, Crime

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.69, Vanderbilt University Press

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• Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

  Julius Lester

  Fear, Animal, Dresses

  Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Fear, Window Panes, People

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2011). “In Desert and Wilderness (橫越撒哈拉)”, p.607, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Men, Bullets

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

  Kristin Hannah

  Country, Fear, Children

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• Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

  Tove Jansson

  Fear, Rain, Book

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• Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

  Dario Argento

  Definitions, Emotion, Anticipation

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

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• The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.

  Noy Holland

  Fall, Seductive, Stories

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• Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn on a menu. Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of Justice. Justice must be blind to race, color, religion or species. If she is not blind, she will be a weapon of terror.

  Philip Wollen

  War, Animal, Race

  "Philip Wollen, Australian Philanthropist, Former VP of Citibank, Makes Blazing Animal Rights Speech". Philip Wollen's speech at the St James Ethics Centre and the Wheeler Centre debate in Australia, freefromharm.org. May 16, 2012.

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• What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

  Osamu Dazai

  Ocean, World, Gains

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

  Mel White

  Christian, Lying, Gay

  "Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality". Book by Mel White, 2011.

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• The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, People, Care

  "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

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