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Terror Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
- The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
- We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
- Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
- The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what…
- The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have…
- But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore…
More Terror Quotes
- I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. — Charles Baudelaire
- The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
- People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. — Max Beerbohm
- We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. — Theodore Bikel
- The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame,… — Tony Blair
- There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by… — Tony Blair
- They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell… — John Boehner
- Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because… — Omar Bongo
- I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror,… — Bono
- Terror made me cruel. — Emily Bronte
- On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved… — George W. Bush
- The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts… — George W. Bush