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Global terror does not respect national boundaries. — Vikas Swarup

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it. — Warren Farrell

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. — H.P. Lovecraft

Where the terror is, you must go. — John Patrick Shanley

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

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another. — Jorge Luis Borges

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built. — Derek Jacobi

Terror owned Adam. The old terror, the one that was just as much confusion and betrayal as fear itself. — Maggie Stiefvater

To one laden with crime, death came armed with double terror. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

I will follow anyone ... and invite everyone ... too unite and defend the freedom of expression. — Widad Akreyi

Our priestesses have always taught that divinity, by virtue of its great power, must encompass both beauty and terror. — Laini Taylor

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William, Saroyan

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea. — Abby Sunderland

Terror was a fire that held you trapped in the top floor of a burning building; the only way to escape it was to jump. — Joe Hill

That's called terror. Its confusion and a little paranoia and a nice big dose of panic. — Jonathan Mayberry

It's official: cyber terror is the new yellowcake uranium. — Kevin Poulsen

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism. — Terence McKenna

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening. — Marco Rubio

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control. — Terence McKenna

Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear. — Bryant McGill

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. — Christoph Martin Wieland

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. — George W. Bush

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance. — Lois Capps

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction. — Benjamin Netanyahu

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. — Seneca The Younger

Mystery and terror are the bulwarks of tyranny. — Barry Hughart

Ye who dwell at home,
Ye do not know the terrors of the main. — Robert Southey

Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell." — Rosie O'Donnell

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable. — Dick Morris

The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased. — S.E. Lindberg

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. — Robertson Davies

That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself. — Clifford D. Simak

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror. — Harold Edmund Stearns

Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence. — George R R Martin

Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything. — Michelle Paver

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. — Maya Angelou

She hesitated, torn between excitement and terror, amazed that she was actually considering it. — Nicholas Sparks

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer. — David Lloyd George

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. — Bill Kristol

Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror. — Dean Koontz

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. — Hamid Karzai

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability. — Ulrich Beck

Your terror tastes just as I imagined, Elizabeth, Fear whispers into my ear. — Kelsey Sutton

Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence (Proverbs 3:25, 26). — Perry Stone

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified. — Eric Whitacre

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. — Federico Fellini

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have. — Katy Grannan

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror. — Don DeLillo

Biography lends to death a new terror. — Oscar Wilde

Terror. That was it. — Roddy Doyle

In the end it wasn't death or terror that shattered them. It was someone else's love. How poetic. — Kelsey Sutton

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror. — John Barrasso

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people. — Alice Walker

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. — Tony Blair

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn't breathe. — Sidney Knight

And no matter what I was doing, another me sat in my belly, absolutely cold with terror over the question of my life. — James Baldwin

Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes. — George R R Martin

ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage.. — Kenneth Eade

Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form. — Matt Haig

What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism. — Mohsin Hamid

All there is is this deep-in-my-stomach feeling of terror, and this fear that there is no really happy ending anymore. — Ava Dellaira

Library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books ... — Owen Barfield

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable. — Ulrich Beck

I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom. — Hilary Mantel

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. — Vernor Vinge

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, — Yitzhak Shamir

We make trifles of terrors,
Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. — William Shakespeare

A firefighter's job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror. — Kathryn Shay

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man. — Aminatta Forna

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

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat ... — Nick Gordon

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration. — C.S. Lewis

There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently. — Arnold Bennett

Terror collided violently with reason. — Anita Moorjani

For no one walks the world in armature but must have terror striking at his heart. — Foundation For Inner Peace

Last of terror's stages, Selene had tutored Europa and me, is busyness. — Steven Pressfield

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game. — Bill Bradley

Terror made me cruel . . . — Emily Bronte

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both — Laurell K. Hamilton

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst. — Lily James

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. — Swami Vivekananda

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. — Benjamin Rush

a huddle of robot sheep bleating their terror with mechanical lungs of a hundred horsepower. — Sinclair Lewis

Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late! — Israelmore Ayivor

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. — Heinrich Himmler

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. — Rainer Maria Rilke

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran. — Lindsey Graham

They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead. — Thomm Quackenbush

I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin. — Victoria Aveyard

We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror. — Angela Merkel

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror. — Alan Colmes

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals. — Stephen Kinzer

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror. — Anna Leonowens

We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure. — Narendra Modi

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination. — Josephine Baker

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock. — Milan Kundera

I think that we have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network. It cannot be contained, it must be defeated. — Hillary Clinton

Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace. — Gregory J. Boyle