All Quotes

The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
‐‐ Remy de Gourmont

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.
‐‐ Richard Burr

The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.
‐‐ Laurie Graham

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

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. White

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.
‐‐ Jo Bonner

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
‐‐ Carl Levin

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.
‐‐ Jo Ann Davis

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.
‐‐ Lee Siegel

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
‐‐ Bill Nelson

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'
‐‐ Renee Ellmers

The terrorists hide behind Allah.
‐‐ Linda Chavez

The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
‐‐ Elizabeth Dole

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
‐‐ Oliver North

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.
‐‐ Nursultan Nazarbayev

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
‐‐ Otto Schily

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
‐‐ Bella Abzug

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
‐‐ Johann Lamont

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
‐‐ Dale Turner

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
‐‐ Thomas W. Higginson

The test of any man lies in action.
‐‐ Pindar

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
‐‐ George William Curtis

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
‐‐ Ralph W. Sockman

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
‐‐ Bainbridge Colby

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
‐‐ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
‐‐ David Miliband

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
‐‐ James Buchanan

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Drew

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
‐‐ Alfred Adler

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.
‐‐ Azim Premji