#terrify

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#abandon #absolutely #appalled #brain #dare

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. ↗

— Maya Lin

#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

After so long being thin, it was terrifying being heavier. But I am a naturally curvy Hispanic girl. I don't deprive myself. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#am #being #curvy #deprive #girl

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ↗

— David Mamet

#ratify #terrifying #threaten #us #which

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#i #i think #intriguing #know #lot

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A. ↗

— George Michael

#go #i #out #terrifying #too

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#else #fear #feelings #inflict #less

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

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#terrifying #their

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