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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
Oliver GoldsmithRead
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
Clara SchumannRead
When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.
Steven SpielbergRead
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. WhiteRead
In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
Yitzhak RabinRead
Terror cannot be finished by one war.
Yitzhak RabinRead
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.
Noam ChomskyRead
If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.
William J. ClintonRead
We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
Carl SaganRead
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
David BowieRead
The indifference to lives not White must stop. The disregard for the fear of white terror must stop. And the lonely suffering in silence by those not White must stop.
Jonathan CapehartRead
For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.
Colson WhiteheadRead
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
Alan BallRead
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
Francis Scott KeyRead
Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.
Timothy D. SnyderRead
There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.
Ariel SharonRead
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
Mikhail GorbachevRead
The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.
Loretta LynchRead
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 KiplingRead
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
Richard MathesonRead
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Jeanette WintersonRead

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