| "I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother." »W. C. Fields |
| "Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." »Norman Vincent Peale |
| "The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." »William Gladstone |
| "If you are a terror to many, then beware of many." »Ausonius |
| "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." »Alfred Hitchcock |
| "Greater is our terror of the unknown." »Titus Livius |
| "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Biography lends to death a new terror." »Oscar Wilde |
| "The basis for optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse." »Craig Volk |
| "If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." »William Hazlitt |
| "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 |
| "This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division." »John Ruskin |
| "Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon |
| "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." »Neil Armstrong |
| "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." »Harry S Truman |
| "I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno |
| "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush |
| "What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider |
| "First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today." »Godfather, The |
| "Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual." »Albert Einstein |
| "American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror." »Betty Naomi Friedan |
| "In Italy for thirty 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 five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles |
| "Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again" »Rudyard Kipling |
| "In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." »James Agee |
| "But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition." »John Owen |
| "The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received." »Richard Jordan |
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