Best 492 quotes in «terrible quotes» category

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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

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

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

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

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

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

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public.

Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

"Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.