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Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like God because I don't believe in God, but in the same sense that I don't like Iago, or the Reverend Slope or any of the other villains of literature, the god of traditional Judaism and Christianity and Islam seems to me a terrible character. He's a god who will... who obsessed the degree to which people worship him and anxious to punish with the most awful torments those who don't worship him in the right way. Now I realise that many people don't believe in that any more who call themselves Muslims or Jews or Christians, but that is the traditional God and he's a terrible character. I don't like him.

Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.

Nervousness made her feel nauseous, almost like she had two hearts frantically beating in her chest, instead of one.

Never underestimate a day's potential to go from bad to terrible in no time.

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

Now she did not even wish to try, for fear of rousing up something terrible.

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible.

She’d fucked him over hardcore. She’d betrayed him and she’d lied to him, and she knew that as far as he was concerned she’d led him on and used him as well, had consorted with people who wanted to see him dead and given them information to help them make him so. Most of all, she’d hurt him. And if the pain in her chest was anything close to what he’d felt, she was more than willing to admit he deserved to get his own back. Was willing to do more than admit it; was willing to take it, in the hopes he’d eventually decide she’d been punished enough and they could maybe move on.

So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand. "I know you're very brave," he said. "Or stupid." "And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.

Terrible sadness, dread, an agonizing desire for happiness swelled in his heart.

The Prophets never made mistakes. Conversely, the common people in the world make myriad mistakes. Generally, we hate a person for his terrible mistakes. But, we should also love him if he has made amazing contributions to the world!

There's work to do.

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." [Women Know Everything!]

Perhaps this is why not one of 800 sexologists attending a conference raised a hand when asked if they would trust a thin rubber sheath to protect them during intercourse with a known HIV-infected person. I don't blame them. They're not crazy, after all. Yet they're perfectly willing to tell your generation that "safe sex" is within reach and you can sleep around with impunity. It is a terrible lie.

We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time. The nurse came in and out of the room. Everything felt awful and I wondered why the whole world didn't seem to notice how bad things really were. I thought of how I'd gotten used to awful, how after my dad died the planets kept on spinning and I got up and ate breakfast every morning and kept going to school. Something happens and it's terrible and you think you can't live another day, but then your mother gets used to it and you get used to it and you both keep on living, and you're not sure if that getting-used-to-things is good or the way life should be.

So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do, he lying and saying it do, but it aint. Pretend that other dame just he friend, so he say, but aint like it true. Some churchbitch she is too. Leastaways that what Amy telling me. Amy say she met her once and she aint shit.

To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.

When something terrific is about to happen in your life, something terrible is most likely to happen. Do not be terrified, remain standing in spite of!

When something terrific is about to happen in your life, something terrible is most likely to happen.

Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked. ... "Ask me again in the morning.

You don't understand what it's like when things are terrible in your mind.

You ain’t know nothing,” a man scoffed. “How I’m supposed to trust some junkie Churchwitch-” The words sliced through her like razor-sharp fangs. Her face flooded with shame, so hot she imagined it steamed in the icy air. At least it wasn’t difficult to identify the speaker. All she had to do was look for the man with Terrible’s fist locked around his neck. “Ain’t think I hear you right,” Terrible said in a calm, quiet voice. “Wanna louden up?” The man shook his head His eyes bulged. He looked like a bug, with his hands clenching into tiny useless fists. “You sure? You got else to say, you best say it now, instead of later. Now we got us watchers. Later might not be true, dig?” The man dug.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

Your heart is raw and bleeding. Everything is strange and terrible.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a growing demand. Quite recently, the state-owned TV channel 'Russia' aired a series based on Varlam Shalamov's works, showing the terrible, cruel truth about Stalin's camps. It was not watered down.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

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

As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

As the cancellation of the German Grand Prix indicates, Germany is a terrible market for Formula One.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.