#terrify

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#almost #also #comprehension #develop #find

One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#daniel radcliffe #fan #harry #harry potter #huge

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #choose #did #especially #fact

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #did #during

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

#culture #democratic #entirely #everybody #first

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#carpet #difficult #find #i #just

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#advice #also #appalled #give #holidays

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything! ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#country #everything #foundations #god #i

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#destroy #fact #him #his #however