Terrible Quotes
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.
The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.
Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.
There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.
Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.
And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.
For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.
TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.
It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.
If the movie is terrible, then the 3D sucks. If the movie is fantastic, then the 3D is good.
Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery
