Air Quote by Agatha Christie

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

— Julie Andrews

My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the…

— Julianna Baggott

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew…

— George Grosz

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences

— Robert Byrd

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my…

— George H. W. Bush

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was…

— Baruch Spinoza

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers…

— Norm MacDonald

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that…

— Dean Koontz

There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own.…

— Alice Munro

I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel…

— Norman Cousins

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a…

— William Styron