Best 492 quotes in «terrible quotes» category

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 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 men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

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

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

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

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 weight in all kinds of beauty

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

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

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 trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.

This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.

We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they're like this system is terrible.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

The Katrina matter was terrible.

The most terrible things end, at last.

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

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

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

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

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'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 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.