Terrify Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you. — Kate Walsh
I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their… — St. Vincent
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em. — Gail Carson Levine
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an… — Luther Burbank
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could… — William Butler Yeats
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I… — Stephen King
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind,… — Thomas Paine
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios. — Kevin Spacey
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in… — Rumi
In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of… — Sylvia Plath
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that… — Jim Davis
Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves — Niccolo Machiavelli
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was… — Diablo Cody
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who… — Charles Kingsley
The rabbis paled. Iâ€™d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore. — Ilona Andrews
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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