Terrible Quotes

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.

There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late ’90s, it was a terrible way to share content.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

I smoke, isn't that terrible?

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

There are so many health food nuts out there that eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.