Terrible Quotes

Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public.

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.

Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.