Best 492 quotes in «terrible quotes» category

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

The Katrina matter was terrible.

The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

The most terrible things end, at last.

There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

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

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

There's a reason Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix are our four fastest-growing areas. They offer an astonishingly high standard of living for ordinary Americans. New York City is a great place to be really rich and not a terrible place to be really poor, but it's a pretty hard place to live on $60,000 a year. You don't experience anywhere near the basic standard of living you would in Houston on the same income.

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

These are terrible people in ISIS, not masterminds.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.

The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.