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Quotes About Terror

I am dreaming of the funeral of the world, watching it go by carried in an urn reduced to ashes and followed by a horde of mourners, a million abreast, across the broadest lands and all chanting together: We are dead, we have killed ourselves. We are beyond rescue. What you see is not us but your thoughts of us, and I who am observing in terror of it being true hope not to have to wake up, so that I may let myself discount it as a dream.
~ David Ignatow
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer.
~ David Lloyd George
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
~ G.K. Chesterton
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.
~ Madeline Amy Sweeney
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
~ Lawrence Durrell
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
~ Thomas Pynchon
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
~ Oscar Wilde
I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
~ Dory Previn
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
~ Gertrude Stein
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
~ Vladimir Lenin
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
~ W. Averell Harriman
Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror.
~ Dominic Riccitello
I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
~ Alan Colmes
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
~ Tacitus
Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.
~ George W. Bush
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
~ Charles Baudelaire
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
~ Adolf Hitler
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.
~ Jonathan Sacks
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
~ Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
To give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.
~ George W. Bush
So far I had the god of evil and the god of terror on my side. My good-guy image was taking a serious beating. Maybe I should recruit some unicorns or kittens with rainbow powers to even us out.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Binds