Terrible Quotes

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

A woman who feels ugly can go to the best party and have a terrible time, but a woman who likes the way she looks can go to a funeral and have a marvellous time.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

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

[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.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

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

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.

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

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

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

Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands a sacred willingness to make sacrifices from the people.

I got to watch some of Hillary Clinton's debates against Barack Obama. She treated him with terrible disrespect.

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.

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

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!)

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)

The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.