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Quotes About Terror

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I know what it is like to experience terror, to feel despondent, to live in fear. I know how wearying and hopeless life can be sometimes.
~ Phan Thi Kim Phuc
When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear. You switch off your soul, and you act like an animal or a machine.
~ Amos Oz
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
~ Stephen Hadley
I have never been affected by terror, but here in Iran, I have never felt any ill will toward me - the opposite, actually.
~ Jordan Burroughs
The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.
~ Chesley Sullenberger
In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror.
~ Jim Carroll
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
~ Dario Argento
We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
~ Foster Friess
If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.
~ William J. Clinton
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.
~ Charles Krauthammer
I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into somewhere that I didn't know existed before, and it frightened me.
~ Alan Garner
Iran is Iran. It has a regime that is destabilized in the region, that is spreading terror.
~ Ron Johnson
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
~ Bill Kristol
Far from curbing terror, we find that draconian laws used by a corrupt and communal police are creating conditions which will only exacerbate the problem.
~ Prashant Bhushan
I don't doubt that the war on terror, at its core, is a war on ideology.
~ Will Cain
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
~ Ernst Fischer
The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
Hamas is a terror organization with a covenant that speaks about the elimination of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. They are not partners for negotiations.
~ Ariel Sharon
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
~ Carl Levin
From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.
~ Dick Cheney
It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.
~ Josh Hartnett