Quotes About Terror

Suddenly his heart seemed to turn to ice and his bowels to water.

Broadly speaking, Communist propaganda depends upon terrifying people with the (quite real) horrors of Fascism.

If such things as goodness and brotherhood and redemption exist, and may be attained, these must sometimes require blood, vengeance, the squirming terror of the former perpetrator, the vanquishing of the heartless oppressor.

The terror and the consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever lived a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will. - In Selected Civil War Letters of Edwine Willow, edited by Constance Mays

The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror...so today I vetoed it

The struggle in the Holy Land is no longer Palestinian versus Israeli, or Muslim versus Jew. It is between those who seek peace and extremists who promote terror.

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Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call from the senses gave her a look directly suggestive of all things linked to deep sexuality, such as blood, suffocation, sudden terror, crime; things indefinitely destroying human bliss and honesty.

One second of true fear beats hours of anything else.

In my heart of hearts, I love theatre. It's the joy and terror of putting a play on, the creativity of it. It is infinitely harder than film and television and more tiring. Your performance is heightened in the way it isn't with film.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

Horror is terror that stayed the night.

Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

If we want to understand the Black experience of the race massacre, we have to start and end with how Black survivors narrated the terror of what occurred." – Scott Ellsworth, Historian

Because of your cross, terror is terrified and one day will be no more;

We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.

But it feels like the hinges must have finally failed, whatever was trying to get in, at last succeeding, instantly tearing into me, and though I'm still conscious, slashing my throat with those long fingers and ripping my ribs out one by one with its brutal jaws.

It was Stalin's Great Terror updated for modern times, with disinformation, legal machinations, indiscriminate violence. Bloodshed was a way of proving loyalty. One was either with or against. And the penalties for resistance were changing all the time, from imprisonment to death, ordered or merely allowed to happen. It amounted to the same thing.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors.