Quotes About Terror

We have every indication that he died of fright.

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes

Mom, my bed was shaking.

Regan relinchando; luego se animaba la escena, y la cama se agitaba, era sacudida violentamente de un lado a otro, mientras Chris observaba, impotente, que su hija ponía los ojos en blanco y emitía un penetrante aullido de terror, que emergía de la base de su columna retorcida. Regan se arqueó y cayó inconsciente. Algo atroz abandonó la habitación.

The two "idiots" Ginger and Zach, both golden retrievers, both beautiful-looking dogs—and both thicker than bricks when it came to brains—had been out sunning on the bedroom deck. They stood up and barked madly, as if he were an invader. Though if he were a real invader they'd have cowered in terror and stained the carpet as they fled into Jennifer's room to hide.

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.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Of all base passions, fear is most accurs'd.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law,Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,And let it keep one shape, till custom make itTheir perch and not their terror.

On horror's head horrors accumulate.

I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to stand an end,Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Distill'dAlmost to jelly with the act of fear.

And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.

Stalin underlined a passage in his copy of Marx that he kept in his library: "There is only one way to shorten and ease the convulsions of the old society and the bloody birth pangs of the new: revolutionary terror." Beside it, Stalin wrote: "Terror is the quickest way to the new society.

The Afghan sky, under which the most beautiful idylls on earth were woven, grew suddenly dark with armored predators; its azure limpidity was streaked with powder trails, and the terrified swallows dispersed under a barrage of missiles. War had arrived. In fact, it had just found itself a homeland...

Turmoil and terror aren't compatible with sangfroid. When horror strikes, the heart is always its first target.

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.

During the Eisenhower administration, the Dulles brothers would finally be given full license to exercise their power in the global arena. In the name of defending the free world from Communist tyranny, they would impose an American reign on the world enforced by nuclear terror and cloak-and-dagger brutality.

scared out of her wits.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than fear itself

ISIS accumulated cash and assets worth an estimated $2 billion, making it arguably the wealthiest terror organization in the world.

If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings.