Terror Quotes
1123 quotes by 785 authors
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Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a…
— Eric Van Lustbader
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
— Jalal Talabani
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In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient…
— Alfred Jodl
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Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During…
— Subcomandante Marcos
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From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than most writers I’ve…
— Michael Arnzen
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The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their…
— Unknown Author
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No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone…
— Chris Kraus
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There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does…
— Robert Goolrick
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I’ve been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it’s possible.
— Sonny Sharrock
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All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged…
— Laurie Lee
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
— Maya Angelou
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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
— Alice Walker
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Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic,…
— Robert McKee
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My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone…
— Noam Chomsky
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Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
— Maximilien Robespierre
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before…
— Arthur Helps
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In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of…
— Alfred Brendel
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Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world…
— Michael Koryta
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I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've…
— Neko Case
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