Terrible Quotes
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.
I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.
I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.
It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.
The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.
If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.
I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.
People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.
If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.
The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.
To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.
It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.
When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.
Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.
When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.
I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.
I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.
I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.
Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)
Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.
There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.