Terror Quotes

1123 quotes by 785 authors

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend. — Richard Matheson
She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the… — Gregory Maguire
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite… — Truman Capote
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of… — Bertrand Russell
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? — Mary Oliver
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves… — Terry Pratchett
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and… — Maya Angelou
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. — George W. Bush
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my fatherâ€™s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about — Edward Bloor
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied… — Edward de Bono
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! — Rudyard Kipling
The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror...so today I vetoed it — George W. Bush
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have… — Aldous Huxley
No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all… — Lorrie Moore
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of… — Poppy Z. Brite
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone â€˜identifiedâ€™ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children… — Greg Mortenson
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeÂ—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? — Cory Doctorow

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