Terror Quotes
Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.
The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.
Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.
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.
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.
Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.
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.
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP.
The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you - that was his message.
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.
The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.
My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.
The minute they become a partner in the Palestinian government, reality will become a lot more complicated for them than when they were a terror organization alone.
I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.
We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people, including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.
A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.
Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.