Abject Terror Quotes

#1. The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization ... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

Thomas A. Edison

#2. Baby talk has tremendous potential, despite its obvious dangers and its near-total incomprehensibility. The only reason you don't embrace it is your abject terror.

Ben Marcus

#3. How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says "what mountains?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. I never stopped feeling abject terror until I got on television and went on a national ad campaign and realized, "I will be able to feed my children. I have somehow averted the destiny that awaited me, which is endless, crippling debt forever."

John Hodgman

#5. There are times when I am concerned about Toph's expression when I'm really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything - an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion - but I know well enough that it is awe.

Dave Eggers

#6. My nose was running, I couldn't see worth shit and my brain was still frozen in abject terror.

Karen Chance

#7. The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Bob Newhart

#8. Grover cradeled his laurel sapling in his hands. Well ... sure is good to be back together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look It's our floor

Rick Riordan

#9. The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

Antony Flew

#10. Hadrian discovered that the most fascinating thing about plummeting in total darkness wasn't the odd sense of euphoria instilled from the free fall or the abject terror derived from anticipating sudden death, but that he had the opportunity to contemplate both.

Michael J. Sullivan

#11. The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in abject terror but lost in wonder, love and praise.

William Barclay

#12. My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn't think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do.

LZ Granderson

#13. The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.

James Lovelock

#14. I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

Andy Hertzfeld

#15. A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

Aaron Eckhart

#16. If you ever want to feel like you're on the verge of total, abject bowel-releasing terror, try making your way a klick or two out of a forest, at night, with the certain feeling you're being hunted. It makes you feel alive, it really does, but not in a way you want to feel alive.

John Scalzi

#17. What we don't understand always scares us.

Leylah Attar

#18. Life is not a puzzle to solve. Stop, Enjoy the Journey!-RVM

R.v.m.

#19. People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.

John Ridley

#20. I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

Patrick Swayze

#21. My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

Paloma Faith

#22. I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

Ashley Graham

#23. Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One

Lois Lowry