Terror Quotes

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Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is… — D. V. Ager
There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own. — Christopher Bollen
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought… — William James
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to… — Margaret Atwood
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch
This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William Saroyan
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters of our domain,… — Robert R. McCammon
You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument. — Alberto Fujimori
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression — Mohammad Khatami
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to… — Chris Matthews
Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see,… — Robert Rauschenberg
I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to… — Bruce Hoffman
We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from… — Cass Sunstein
If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up. — Peter Wolf
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. — Orson Welles
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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