Best 492 quotes in «terrible quotes» category

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

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

Rainy day savings are incredibly important, because from time to time, bad things happen. And if you're not prepared for that, it's going to be really terrible.

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Rent Control is not a terrible movie, certainly not for the budget they had. And, again, it's such an '80s kind of thing.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

Self-confidence is a terrible, terrible thing; it's also the most attractive thing.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

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

Suicide is a terrible idea, but if you're going to end it, do so at a Pinkberry near you.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?

Terrorists are not bad; they are limited by circumstances. They are human beings. I am very, very, very sad when they explode themselves and kill 40 to 60 persons. It's terrible. But also, I am sad for them, a young person who lost his whole life. It's terrible. They are limited by religion, by politics, by economical interests.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead, he was unable to wake her from them. Yes, that is death: Tereza asleep, having terrible nightmares, and he unable to wake her.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

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

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

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

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 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 Katrina matter was terrible.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

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

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 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.