Terrible Quotes · Page 36

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

— Richard Griffiths

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I can deal with having a terrible night on stage in front a bunch of Glaswegians but not a bunch of Glaswegians…

— Iain Stirling

I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

— Julia Kent

I know it's a terrible habit, but if I get a pimple, I'll sit in front of the mirror and pick at…

— Camille Rowe

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.

— Heinrich Boll

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

The terrible toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire world is a reminder of the interconnection and interdependence of all…

— Ned Lamont

God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person…

— Soren Kierkegaard

When I play 'NHL '09,' I play as the Blues and my guy is just terrible. I feel embarrassed when he's out…

— T. J. Oshie

I'm a hardened atheist but I feel that we have an inbuilt need for God. If you eradicate religion, you end up…

— Jonathan Trigell

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates,…

— Paul Auster

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that…

— Helena Rubinstein

Anything people say about me I don't care. I really don't care. You read so much terrible stuff about yourself it sort…

— Craig Revel Horwood

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my…

— Kevin Hart

I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said…

— Brent Spiner

When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one;…

— Jon Krakauer

I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see…

— Joel Osteen

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories…

— Umberto Eco

What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing.…

— Anton Chekhov

The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be…

— Swami Vivekananda

Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit…

— Ben Marcus

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the…

— Anonymous

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

— Oscar Robertson

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

— Alex Gibney

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

— Robin Williams

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time…

— Franz Kafka

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

— Peter Schjeldahl

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

— Terry Pratchett

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

— Patricia Briggs

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

— Sally Quinn

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

— Yann Martel

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do…

— Rob Bell

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

— Iris Murdoch

Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear…

— Michael Grant

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

— Heinrich Heine

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

— Edward Teller

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

— Orson Scott Card