Terrible Quotes

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.

I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.

This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.

I don't really like actors. Actors are like terrible comedians with no punch lines. It's all about them. They talk about themselves all the time. They bore the sh - t out of you.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

I'm going to be pulling my pants up all day, and I'm just going to have a terrible day. Because if your clothes don't fit, just like bras or anything, it's not a good day.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.

Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.

Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.