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Quotes About Terror

Maybe somebody will come along and be, like, a Tolkien for horror.
~ Harry Turtledove
Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once.
~ Harry Turtledove
Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.
~ Lawrence Wright
You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.
~ le carre john
When I flew over the Atlas Mountains in a plane, I realized that their formation-through erosion, geological dramas, the action of winds-was completely independent of our moral anxieties; man is in a kind of cyclone; he builds solid houses to protect and shelter his heart. Outside, nature is nothing but indifference, even terror.
~ Le Corbusier
August 1793 was during the Reign of Terror—when so many aristocrats and wealthy people were seized and guillotined without trials. Marie Antoinette was in the Bastille then. She was executed
~ Lea Wait
YOU WILL REIGN IN TERROR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! To do otherwise would make a laughing stock of us both.
~ Lee Chi Hyong
PROVERBS 3:25–26 I pray that in righteousness my son shall be established. That he shall be far from oppression, for he shall not fear. And from terror, for it shall not come near him. ISAIAH 54:14
~ Lee Roberts
Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.
~ lenin vladimir v
Godzilla— A skyscraper-sized, radioactively mutated lizard. Grocery
~ Lenore Look
The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.'
~ Glenn Greenwald
With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.
~ Pat Roberts
This is an unprecedented pace of terror in modern times. And so, to say they're on the run absolutely defies reality.
~ Michael McCaul
When the Paris terror attacks happen, when war breaks out in Ukraine, when unrest happens in Ferguson, people know that CNN is the place to come.
~ Jeff Zucker
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
~ Andrew Hudgins
Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.
~ David Slade
The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.
~ Ernst Junger
Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.
~ Ellen Key
WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS... IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!
~ Widad Akreyi
A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.
~ Fede Alvarez
War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.
~ Tim O'Brien
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.
~ Tim O'Brien
The second-wave Klan could return to its roots of terror because it had survived the kind of scrutiny that would have killed off any other secret society in a democracy
~ Timothy Egan
It came about that American citizens in Indiana were judged by their religion, condemned because of their race, illegally punished because of their opinions, hounded because of their personal conduct, and a state of terror was substituted for a state of law.
~ Timothy Egan