Terror Quotes

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.

Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror - the tunnel - the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.

Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.

Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

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

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, anytime there's any Twilight-related event or anything.

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.

A born terror, a rebel without a pause... Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

The terror attacks have reshaped the campaign and may have given another boost to Donald Trump.

I let them think I did that" said Jace "My reign of terror continues

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.