Terrible Quotes · Page 34

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

— Joe Meno

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

— John Schlesinger

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

— Tom Stoppard

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

— Jamie Dimon

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

— Eddie Vedder

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

— William Shakespeare

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

— Charles Stross

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers…

— Denis Diderot

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in…

— Gary Johnson

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour,…

— Maurice Gibb

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with…

— Ethel Waters

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge…

— Terry Pratchett

My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and,…

— Hillary Clinton

I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself…

— Taika Waititi

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible…

— Daniel Kahneman

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she…

— N.K. Jemisin

My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of…

— Stephen Gaghan

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and…

— Alan Lightman

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -…

— Douglas MacArthur

The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into…

— Ricky Gervais

[Donald trump] was steamed about [Hillary] Clinton's suggestion that he might not be as rich as he says. So he ditched the…

— Kevin Drum

I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives…

— Jose Mujica

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of…

— Plato

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

— Saul Kripke

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right…

— Tana French

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is…

— Pierre Salinger

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I…

— Whitney Cummings

There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.

— George W. Bush

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.

— Thom Yorke

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's…

— Harold Prince

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.

— Gosho Aoyama

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

— Leo Tolstoy

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

— Michelle Tea

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can…

— Samuel Beckett

Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.

— Arnaud Desjardins

“When something terrific is about to happen in your life, something terrible is most likely to happen.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.

— Pete Townshend

John Hurt was pretty bad. I know it's pretty terrible to besmirch the memory of a dead man, but he was really…

— Robert Sheehan