Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Said

The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.

Cleopatra

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

Andy Rooney

I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.

Jeaniene Frost

I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.

Ian Mcewan

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

Tony Blair

After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.