Terrible Things Quotes

Terrible Things Quote of the day

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

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

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?

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

What a terrible thing life can be.

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?

Its a war zone. Terrible things happen.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

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.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

The most terrible things end, at last.

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

Hope can make people do terrible things.

In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.