Betty Hill Quotes

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

Panic is a horrible thing.

The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Dad never demonstrated any fear, although my sisters and I lived in terror he’d be killed by an assassin.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

Fear is a powerful weapon. It can excite and motivate, and it can get people to yell and to scream. But fear has never created a job.

When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.