Horrors Quotes
238 quotes by 208 authors
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ... We could have…
— Hannibal
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Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who…
— Benedict Joseph Labre
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There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable…
— George C. Marshall
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People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such…
— Stonewall Jackson
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Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
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It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery…
— Robertson Davies
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When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.
— Eugene O'Neill
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and…
— Florence Nightingale
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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history,…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
— Russ Feingold
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No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by…
— William Happer
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There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy.…
— Michael Novak
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People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural'…
— George Orwell
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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
— John Steinbeck
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Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave…
— Jodie Foster
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We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors…
— Ashleigh Banfield
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Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the…
— Gary Yourofsky
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One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on…
— Per Petterson
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