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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

Ronald Reagan

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Gore Vidal

It must have been a terrifying ride.

Barb Maynes

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Ugo Betti

This was absolutely terrifying for a few moments. Basically your ears popped, there's a really loud bang and there was a lot of white noise. It was like somebody turned on a leaf blower in your ear.

Jeremy Hermanns

We believe that we are developing a script that is certain to please the Saw franchise?s core fans while adding fresh, terrifying and unimaginable new twists to the Saw saga. Jigsaw himself would be proud.

Oren Koules

It's not good; it's not good at all. It's terrifying.

Wade Brenckle

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Carl Gustav Jung

I was 12 in 1968. From a serious kid's vantage point this was a terrifying time to grow up.

Don Silver

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

Alain De Botton

This is really an attempt, and not an unsuccessful attempt, to terrify people.

Jeffrey Robbins

They terrify us. They are all in cahoots with our former boss.

Wei Zebo

Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Doctor, more so than last year. She's seen some incredible things, terrifying things. This time she's more experienced as a woman, as a companion; she does everything with more conviction. There's stuff that she understands a bit more, so it's a natural progression.

Billie Piper

It's at points terrifying but again, I have great faith that God will get them through this.

Cindi Williams

In certain places, for whatever reason, just for being Caucasian or having blue eyes, someone might want to cut my head off. For being American, for being anything, for just being myself, someone might want to destroy me. That concept is so terrifying that it constantly bears exploration.

Bryan Singer

It was just terrifying … even the fact that they knew I was involved in Celtic (football club), they knew where I lived, they knew my family.

Chris Ward

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

Wallace Shawn

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Thomas Paine

The aggravated agony of depression is terrifying, and elation, its nonidentical twin sister, is even more terrifying-attractive as she may be for a moment. You are grandiose beyond the reality of your creativity.

Joshua Logan

There are two Americas - and millions of the people already distinguish between them. One is the America of the imperialists - of the little clique of capitalists, land lords and militarists, who are threatening and terrifying the world. This is the America the people of the world hate and fear. There is the other America - the America of the workers and farmers and the 'little people.'

James P. Cannon

It was so strong that I saw buildings swaying. It was terrifying.

Hari Singh

Guns are loud, exhilarating and utterly terrifying things. BLACK delivers a deep shooting experience that captures the paralyzing sensation of pulling the trigger of dangerous and exotic automatic weapons.

Alex Ward

It was terrifying because I kept expecting it to happen to me at any moment. But I felt fine and I didn't know why.

Raste Khan

I like dealing with parents whose children have been arrested for the first time, ... It's one of the few times that one can make a difference, so I try to make the experience so terrifying that they never want to come back.

David Copperfield

It was terrifying to receive the news that they had done so poorly in that first 24 hours.

Nicole Draper

Compassion for anyone who has ever had to go through anything so terrifying.

Taryn Manning

This has taken so long and been so labor-intensive this year that the thought of having to start all over again with a new vendor, and a new format that we don't know about, is just terrifying. I'm just hoping they've worked out all the kinks this year.

Jane Gazdziak

After that, everybody-assumed I must be a terrifying person who lived in a cave. We both tried to make other kinds of films, but we couldn't get any money. They were offering us money to make scary movies, so I went off and made The Hills Have Eyes , and Sean went off and did Friday the 13th .

Wes Craven

We shouldn't forget how terrifying untamed landscape was to early settlers. From their perspective, mankind was put here in the New World to conquer the wilderness.

Tracy Kidder

It was a terrifying moment, and a moment of sheer relief, ... I saw that there was exactly enough room in the soft tissue betweenthe outside of my face, and the beginning of my skull, there was just enough room to hold that bullet.

Marc Cohn

It's been ups and downs, it's been happy and sad, it's been terrifying and comforting.

Chris Solinsky

It is scary, it is terrifying.

Darren Davidson

He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean. . . not anything cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.

Judith Guest

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Jane Grey

Most serial killers kill at home as a hobby on a part-time basis. But (I think) this guy has made it into a career. He roams the country and he could be in my state next, in your state next, and that's very terrifying.

Jack Levin

I hated the Graham School. It was the most terrifying place I've ever been in. They would yell at you and humiliate you, but [the dancing] was just amazingly pretty.

Anne Megibow

When your child is missing, you're so aware that every minute counts. I know the issuing of the AMBER Alert played a role in our daughter's safe return. It's better to have [the system] conceived and in place and working for us. So many people called us during those terrifying hours and wanted to help. The AMBER Alert system enables friends and even complete strangers to do that.

David Arnold

A terrifying prospect to serious foreign policy players.

Chris Nelson

This is something that Brian and I worked really hard on, putting comedy next to really scary stuff. It was trying to find out how to let people have the experience of what is sort of terrifying in life, whatever that emotion of injustice is that just makes you feel like this is wrong — then give them a way out in the next breath.

David Ford

He is terrifying to those who aspire to have a normal life because ... if it could be done to the United States, it could be done to them.

Shibley Telhami

Smith put this woman through a horrific and terrifying ordeal and, although his sentence will not erase what has happened, I am pleased that it reflects the seriousness of his crime.

Harry Harrison

This is my first day of work, Day 1 as Donna. I closed my eyes and did it, ... It was terrifying and exciting at the same time.

Donna Rose

We have been discussing story lines that extend the 'Saw' franchise to new limits and beyond. The most important element of any franchise is remaining true to the roots of its success. We believe that we are developing a script that is certain to please the 'Saw' franchise's core fans while adding fresh, terrifying and unimaginable new twists to the 'Saw' saga.

Oren Koules

It is a terrifying crime that can never be allowed to happen again.

Ryutaro Hashimoto

I still look back on those days and wonder how or where I found the courage to walk in that day because I don't think anyone of us can understand how terrifying it can be.

Donna Rose

People have to be aware of the dangers and the power of the sea and rivers. Lifebelts may be someone's last chance of survival if they are swept into the sea. For rescuers to find that they are missing must be very frustrating and terrifying.

Royal Society

It's the biggest buzz to be a part of the opening ceremony, but terrifying-1.4 billion people will get to see that.

Adam Garcia

This was an utterly terrifying experience for those on the receiving end of your behaviour. It was an offence of the utmost gravity.

David Turner

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

George Bataille

She talked to the graduate students and she told us a good working ratio for a poet of acceptances into journals was if you got published in one out of 80 packets that you sent out... which is shocking and terrifying at the same time, but is just also really good to know.

Miller Oberman

She was pretty raw and technically she didn't know what was going on and that's understandable. So we sat back and laughed. We had all been there, we had all been the ones who didn't know what to do. I remember my first film was terrifying, so it was nice to sit back like I was Jack Lemmon or something.

Skeet Ulrich

The flying was terrifying at first. You look down and there's nothing but your toes and the stage. Now, it's a dream. This whole show for me has been just checking off the list of childhood dreams. I can just kind of move to Connecticut after this.

David Turner

One of my friends from our group is having terrifying flashbacks.

Helen Niles

[His wife shuddered thinking of the terrifying tide of corpses floating in the flood.] I couldn't go back to that, ... Some of them could be my family.

Anthony Powell

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

Kurt Vonnegut

Going back to the stage to do Lulu was really terrifying as it was such a hard part.

Anna Friel

This is not a dramatic development, as Israel also favors a Middle East clean of nuclear weapons, when no threat will exist. The Iranian issue is what the UN is dealing with. The message is clear: Iran poses an immediate and terrifying global threat and it is good that the world has come to its senses.

Dan Gillerman

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

This was an utterly terrifying experience for those on the receiving end. It was an offence of the utmost gravity.

David Turner

The animals are used as another way to terrify the other family members. Terrorizing the pet is a really effective way of controlling the family. It's a tactic that's been used for a really long time.

Rita Smith

We're like his test audience. It's a nightmare for Steve, a terrifying experience. The fact that he's done it before doesn't stop the angst.

Eric Idle

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

E. L. Doctorow