William R. Alger Quotes
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
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It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.
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The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
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I think crush is the perfect word to describe it, too, because it simultaneously means 'to have a brief infatuation with someone unattainable' and 'to be violently squashed.
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There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
