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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. -- Maximilien Robespierre
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. -- Thomas Carlyle
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. -- Winston Churchill
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. -- Douglas Horton
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow. -- Eric Hoffer
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength -- Georg Buchner
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. -- Maimonides
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. -- Pappy Boyington
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. -- Maya Angelou
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. -- George W. Bush
Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror. -- Omar Bongo
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. -- Oscar Wilde
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. -- Barack Obama
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. -- Tony Blair
We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror. -- Vladimir Putin
No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time. -- John Ruskin
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. -- Orson Welles
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God. -- Oswald Chambers
Terror made me cruel. -- Emily Bronte
Terror collided violently with reason. -- Anita Moorjani
Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. -- Benjamin Disraeli
He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration. -- C. S. Lewis
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth. -- Rudyard Kipling
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Terror must never be allowed as a means for political confrontation. -- Klaus Kinkel
Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic. -- Ron Paul
Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality. -- Mel White
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea. -- Abby Sunderland
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism. -- Terence McKenna
But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip. -- Bernard Beckett
Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R. -- James Patterson
The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening. -- Marco Rubio
Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine. -- Paulo Coelho
Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. -- Stephen King
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. -- Friedrich Engels
Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy. -- Joe Hill
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror. -- Caleb Carr
The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history. -- Sue Kelly
Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me." -- Poppet
The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn. -- Herman Melville
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong. -- Dennis Hastert
I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror? -- Neil Gaiman
Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. -- Swami Vivekananda
Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city. -- Raj Thackeray
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten. -- Jim Ramstad
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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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. -- Dario Argento
Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve -- Rachel Caine
How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique. -- David Hockney
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. -- Stephen Rodrick
Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ... -- Margaret Oliphant
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country. -- Carolyn McCarthy
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. -- Benjamin Rush
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror. -- Andrew Card
My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel. -- Pittacus Lore
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world. -- Stephen Gaghan
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point. -- Al Franken
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers. -- Salman Rushdie
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen. -- Tariq Ramadan
We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror. -- Rick Perry
We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over. -- Gerald Bard Tjoflat
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide. -- Jean de La Fontaine
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. -- Edgar Allan Poe
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. -- Carl Jung
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. -- Frank Herbert
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend. -- George W. Bush
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. -- Christopher Hitchens
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror. -- Anish Kapoor
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. -- Courtney Love
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. -- Joseph Conrad
The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck. -- Nostradamus
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. -- Andy Rooney
Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag. -- Bill Shuster
To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th. -- Evan Bayh
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. -- George W. Bush
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. -- Bram Stoker
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 will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. -- Stephen King
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it. -- Dave Reichert
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. -- Peter Kropotkin
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. -- Pierre Loti
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. -- Noam Chomsky
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. -- Bill Kristol
Blank pages inspire me with terror. -- Margaret Atwood
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. -- Euripides
This war on terror is bogus. -- Michael Meacher
I don't want terror in America. -- Donald Trump
Joy is the reflex of terror. -- Victor Hugo
Where the terror is, you must go. -- John Patrick Shanley
Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror. -- Dominic Riccitello
Biography lends to death a new terror -- Oscar Wilde
Greater is our terror of the unknown. -- Livy
Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde
Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive. -- Jackie Morse Kessler
Global terror does not respect national boundaries. -- Vikas Swarup
Horror... and moral terror... are your friends. -- Marlon Brando
Everyone became brave from excess of terror. -- Gustave Flaubert
Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches! -- Brian K. Vaughan
Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror. -- Christin Lore Weber
Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror. -- Colin Firth
In defeating terror, Israel's cause is our cause. -- Hillary Clinton
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I live in terror of not being misunderstood. -- Oscar Wilde
Its never right to fight terror with terror. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Slippery stages were the terror of my life. -- Fred Astaire
The most terrible of all things is terror. -- William Rounseville Alger
That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. -- Khaled Hosseini
A Palestinian state will never be created by terror. -- Elliott Abrams
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. -- Charles Baudelaire
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan. -- Nancy Pelosi
Where the terror is, is where you must go. -- Daphne Zuniga

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