Best 492 quotes in «terrible quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

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.

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

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

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

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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.

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.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

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

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.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

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.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Fact-checking is a terrible way to report on Donald Trump's lying . It's like we enter into a dialogue with him. It's as though, he says "A," and we check "A," and it gives it no context. Saying that he's "misstating" is an even worse way of covering it. That's NPR's ridiculous policy of not calling his lies "lies." It's really destructive.