Best 492 quotes in «terrible quotes» category

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

One thing Barack Obama is: He's a good campaigner. He's a terrible president.

Oh, my god. I'd be a terrible doctor. I don't like to touch other people. There's a lot of gruesome stuff in my line of work to feel or to admit. I'm sure everyone's expecting me to say "proctologist," but actually no, I don't want to be a proctologist. Probably want to be a dentist, because you don't have to touch much of the other person's body, just their face or mouth.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

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

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

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 .

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

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

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 have to do terrible things.

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.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

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?

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?

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.

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

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