Best 492 quotes in «terrible quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

"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.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.

Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

Chaos is a terrible thing to waste.

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.

Clary grinned at Luke. “So you’re not moving to Idris, I take it?” “Nah,” he said. He looked as happy as she’d ever seen him. “The pizza here is terrible.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.