Best 492 quotes in «terrible quotes» category

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

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

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

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.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

.. 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.

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

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

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

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

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

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 more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

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