A Quote by William Rounseville Alger

The most terrible of all things is terror.

William Rounseville Alger

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William Rounseville Alger
American - Author
1822 - 1905

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Maurice Sendak

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

Euripides

Most people in the Middle East at the moment, even if they are totally open-minded about possible peace, nobody does anything. It's an age of indifference in a way. It's like: "OK, terrible things are happening here, terrible things are happening there... forget it. We'll keep on going for our own benefit."

Eran Riklis

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 Sharon

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

Paulo Coelho

I love saying terrible things. Things that I think are terrible and I've gotten in to trouble in the past - just hearing it come out of my mouth or seeing it typed and seeing it out there - something terrible that in real life isn't funny.

Limmy

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

Mikhail Bulgakov

It seems to me that one of the most interesting things about God as a concept, if you decide to believe in God, is that God's ways are unknowable. And God obviously, look at the world around you, does or is responsible for some terrible, terrible, awful things. A young girl kidnapped and kept in the darkness and sexually abused. The deaths of six million Jews. A mudslide that buries a village. All of these things. If God is doing the good stuff, he's got to be doing that stuff too.

Neil Gaiman

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Thundercat

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Sophocles

'Existence' is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by coping, as they always have.

David Brin

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

Roxane Gay

Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

Sandra Cisneros

Terror is terror is terror, and it doesn't matter what nationality that terror belongs to.

Reuven Rivlin

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.