Top 1200 Acts Of Terror Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.

Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.

Terror made me cruel.

If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred bases, but who's counting, why we need to basically bring those troops home and why we need to stop this policy of regime change, these wars on terror, which only create more terror. This needs to be debated.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Terror works by surprise.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

Where the terror is, is where you must go.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.

Terror cannot be finished by one war.

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

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.

Joy is the reflex of terror.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Where the terror is, you must go.

All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon ourselves this pre-acceptance of the pain and torment, they will be visited upon us in an otherwise necessary individual and universal collapse. Anyone disassociated from his origin and his spiritually sensed task acts against origin. Anyone who acts against it has neither a today nor a tomorrow.

Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

The United States cannot live with terror.

This war on terror is bogus.

You don't talk to terror organizations!

I don't want terror in America.

Terror collided violently with reason.

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

We've investigated Chattanooga as a terror attack from the beginning.

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

The most terrible of all things is terror.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along.

True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the case of the Apostles and many holy men, who did not spread themselves out with an empty show of leaves, but were bowed down by the weight of the true fruits of spiritual knowledge: of whom it is written in Acts: 'But when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned men, they were astonished' (Acts 4:13).

I'm all for NATO. But I said they have to focus on terror, also.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.